"I said that I loved the wise proverb,……" — Bryan Procter
"I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep."
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18 Quotes by Bryan Procter
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I 'm on the sea! I 'm on the sea! I am where I would ever be, With the blue…
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The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.
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Pity speaks to grief more sweetly than a band of instruments.
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I never was on the dull, tame shore, But I loved the great sea more and more.
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Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
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The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
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So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!
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Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst…
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The sea! the sea! the open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free! Without a mark, without a bound,…
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More Brief Quotes
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In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.
— Theodor Adorno
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Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used…
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As a father, physician and nurse, I have a special place in my heart for children, and I know the…
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The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine…
— Juvenal
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It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation,…
— George Julius Poulett Scrope
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You're like this little blip of light that lasts for a very brief time and you can shine as brightly…
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All our moments are last moments. We abide in the forever leaving of our own coming? We can put our…
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We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to…
— Susan Faludi
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Bad Gardens copy, good gardens create, great gardens transcend. What all great gardens have in common are their ability to…
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