"I know what the caged bird feels, alas!" — Paul Laurence Dunbar
"I know what the caged bird feels, alas!"
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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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A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.…
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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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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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Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.
— Karen Armstrong
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Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they…
— Aeschylus
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This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at…
— James L. Buckley
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Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
— Albert Camus
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it.
— George Carlin
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Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
— Louis Untermeyer
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Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,…
— George Arnold
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Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!
— William Shakespeare
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In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my…
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose…
— Tom Robbins
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