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Maya Angelou has 789 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school,…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
— Honore de Balzac
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I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
— Lord Byron
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The fashion magazines are suggesting that women wear clothes that are 'age appropriate.' For me that would be a shroud.
— Joan Rivers
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.
— Sophocles
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I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
— M. Night Shyamalan
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Our CO2 mixes with everyone else's within a year, then hangs around for centuries like a shroud.
— William H. Calvin
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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.
— Langston Hughes
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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed;…
— Moby
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When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict,…
— Matthew Scully
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No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed.
— Ogden Nash
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Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harm Nor question much That subtle wreath of hair, which crowns my arm; The…
— John Donne
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