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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet…
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All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.
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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.
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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.
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Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never…
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If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.
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It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the…
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is…
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The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody…
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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams
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No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet…
— William Butler Yeats
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually…
— Conrad Black
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The linguistic clumsiness of tourists and students might be the price we pay for the linguistic genius we displayed as babies, just…
— Steven Pinker
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My life is a stairway to heaven, not a 'decline into decrepitude.
— Jane Fonda
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We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife…
— Jane Fonda
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His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Was it a sign of Creeping Decrepitude?
— Julia Child
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One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is…
— Aldous Huxley
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