Fame is a magnifying glass. ~English Proverb
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If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow. ~Henry Adams
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Coffee should be: black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love. ~Turkish Proverb
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For me, prose walks, poetry dances. ~James Broughton
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Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose; anything goes. ~Cole Porter
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Bygone troubles are good to tell. ~Yiddish Proverb
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A fable is a bridge which leads to truth. Follow it. ~Saudi Proverb
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What flatterers say, try to make true. ~German Proverbs
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A house without a dog or a cat is the house of a scoundrel. ~Portuguese Proverb
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Sweet is the day of sacred rest;
No mortal cares shall seize my breast;
O may my heart in tune be found
Like David's harp of solemn sound. ~Isaac Watts
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Some may claim that is it unscientific to speak of the operations of nature as miracles. But the point of the title lies in the paradox of finding so many wonderful things subservient to the rule of law. ~Elisha Gray
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It takes time to build castles. Rome was not built in a day. ~Irish Proverb
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The apparent world, the one which is perceived, with its figures, its brightness, its colors, is a psychical product, a creation of the observer. The figures seen on the vault of heaven are neither the celestial bodies, nor the true clouds or the falling stars, but are only effigies which the observer's psyche has created and localized how and where it can. ~Vasco Ronchi
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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All artists are anarchists in some way; some more extreme than others, but it is something that I think artists are supposed to do. We are supposed to present a different angle on everything, and I certainly think it is as much as poetry, in my opinion. ~Robert Zemeckis
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A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes. ~Indian Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. ~Salvatore Quasimodo
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Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets. ~Democritus
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How much money you get, depends on lots of extraneous things. It depends on how good you are at turning poetry into a marketable product, which is something it was never supposed to be. That's why many people suppose that the better the poet you are the lower your income should be, and that's probably true. ~Robert Bringhurst
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