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The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWrite now →Details & source
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Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.Samuel JohnsonWrite now →Details & source
Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass'd away.William CowperWrite now →Details & source
Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or s…Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWrite now →Details & source
'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,— Stranger than fiction.Lord ByronWrite now →Details & source
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.William ShakespeareWrite now →Details & source
Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?Robert BrowningWrite now →Details & source
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.Jonathan SwiftWrite now →Details & source
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If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.Ralph Waldo EmersonWrite now →Details & source
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
In lazy apathy let stoics boast Their virtue fix'd:'t is fix'd as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast;…Alexander PopeWrite now →Details & source
O hearts that break and give no sign Save whitening lip and fading tresses!Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.Write now →Details & source
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I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 't was said to me.Walter ScottWrite now →Details & source
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.Francis BaconWrite now →Details & source