"A crust of bread and a corner to……" — Paul Laurence Dunbar
"A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life."
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
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19 Quotes by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar has 19 quotes on this site.
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Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
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We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our…
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I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with…
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I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
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It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell,…
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But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
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What Joe Hamilton lacked more than anything else in the world was some one to kick him. Many a man…
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Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God!…
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Money is a great dignifier.
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A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And…
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With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
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This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys…
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I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary…
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Acorns were good until bread was found.
— Francis Bacon
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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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I love all kinds of bread. Whenever I crave junk food, I want salty things like peanuts or potato chips.
— Tyra Banks
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I don't drink milk, and I don't eat bread, pasta or rice. But I eat a lot of meat, chicken,…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
— Milton Berle
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A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
— Georges Bernanos
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Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.
— Ambrose Bierce
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