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Better Quotes by Mary Oliver
- I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
- I worked privately, and sometimes I feel that might be better for poets than the kind of social workshop gathering. My school was the great…
- It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
- And I do not want anymore to be useful, to be docile, to lead / children out of the fields into the text / of…
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- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge,… — Isaac Asimov
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- God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine
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