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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to…
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The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of…
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For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify…
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Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes.
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Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
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Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
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Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
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Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,…
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
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Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to…
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We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the…
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Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And…
— Alexander Pope
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Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer,…
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Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what…
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Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other.
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Brandon McCaw did a story based on Greek poets like Hesiod described a heroic age when great men mingled with gods and…
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