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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In…
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I imagine therefore I belong and am free.
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If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your…
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Portrait The world spreads out on either side no farther than the heart is wide.
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'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
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To be alive is power; existence in itself; without a further function; omnipotence.
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Beauty is not caused, it is; Chase it and it ceases, Chase it not and it abides...
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Besides the Autumn poets sing, A few prosaic days, A little this side of the snow, And that side of the Haze...,…
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When everything that ticked has stopped, and space stares, all around, or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, repeal the beating ground.
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[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.
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Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb - or Dome of Worm - or Porch of Gnome - or some Elf's Catacomb?
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We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.
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Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete…
— Thomas Sowell
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Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word…
— Dorothy Parker
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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with…
— Emily Dickinson
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If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
— Charles Bukowski
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Pretty words are not always true, and true words are not always pretty.
— Emaliebaby
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Pretty words are not always true. True words are not always pretty.
— Blossom
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The world cannot be changed with pretty words alone.
— Code Geass
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