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The dearest ambition of a slave is not liberty, but to have a slave of his own.
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One cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
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Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to…
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
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Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do.
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If you can’t laugh together in bed, the chances are you are incompatible, anyway. I’d rather hear a girl laugh well than…
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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and…
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Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one…
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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like…
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Home is where the books are
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Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.
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I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
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Travellers, like poets, are mostly an angry race: by falling into a daily fit of passion, I proved to the governor and…
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Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together…
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People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.
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Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
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Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth…
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I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just…
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Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.
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