"Most writers steal a good thing when they……" — Bryan Procter
"Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em."
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18 Quotes by Bryan Procter
Bryan Procter has 18 quotes on this site.
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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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I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That…
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Shadows fall on even the brightest hours.
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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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