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The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people…
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Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by…
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The greatest of all human delusions is that there is a tangible goal, and not just direction towards an ideal aim. The…
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When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped…
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I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad…
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I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left…
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Although Poets are vain and ambitious, their vanity and ambition are of the purest kind attainable in this world. They are ambitious…
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There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife — a tyrannical midwife.
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual…
— William Ames
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Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still…
— Eric Hoffer
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The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,…
— Milton Friedman
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Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised…
— John William Draper
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We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of…
— John F. Kennedy
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Our age has become so mechanical that this has also affected our recreation. People have gotten used to sitting down and watching…
— Maria von Trapp
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The amiable is a duty most certainly, but must not be exercised at the expense of any of the virtues. He who…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.
— Daniel Goleman
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