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    John Milton
    “The childhood shows the man,
    As morning shows the day.”
    ― John Milton, Paradise Regained
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    John Dryden
    “Beware the fury of a patient man.”
    ― John Dryden
    tags: revenge, warning
    449 likes

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    John Dryden
    “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
    ― John Dryden
    tags: adaptation, change, habit, self-improvement
    275 likes

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    John Locke
    “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
    ― John Locke
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    John Locke
    “I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
    ― John Locke
    tags: actions, interpretation
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    Daniel Defoe
    “It is never too late to be wise.”
    ― Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
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    Daniel Defoe
    “The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
    ― Daniel Defoe
    tags: diamond, soul
    1815 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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    Jonathan Swift
    “Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: imagination
    1923 likes

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    Jonathan Swift
    “Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.”
    ― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
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    William Congreve
    “Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.”
    ― William Congreve
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    Alexander Pope
    “To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: failure, forgiveness, humanity, mistakes
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    Alexander Pope
    “Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: beatitudes, disappointment, expectations, hope
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    Alexander Pope
    “Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.”
    ― Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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    Alexander Pope
    “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
    ― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism
    tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion
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    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
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    Henry Fielding
    “I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.”
    ― Henry Fielding
    tags: contentment, inner-peace
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    Samuel Johnson
    “Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Works of Samuel Johnson. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, A Grammar of the English Tongue, Preface to Shakespeare, Lives of the English Poets & more [improved 11/20/2010]
    tags: curiosity
    1684 likes

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    William Blake
    “To see a World in a Grain of Sand
    And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
    Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
    And Eternity in an hour.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: inspirational, wonder
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    William Blake
    “A truth that's told with bad intent
    Beats all the lies you can invent.”
    ― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
    tags: lies, logic, philosophy, religion, truth
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    William Blake
    “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: betrayal, disappointment
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    William Blake
    “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: love
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    William Blake
    “Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”
    ― William Blake
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    William Blake
    “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
    ― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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    William Wordsworth
    “Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart
    3263 likes

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    William Wordsworth
    “The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads
    tags: finale-of-middlemarch, tintern-abbey
    3562 likes

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    William Wordsworth
    “Nature never did betray
    The heart that loved her.”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: poetry
    364 likes

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    William Wordsworth
    “The music in my heart I bore
    Long after it was heard no more.”
    ― William Wordsworth, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age
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    William Wordsworth
    “Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop
    Than when we soar.”
    ― William Wordsworth, The Excursion 1814
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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    “Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
    ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Literary Remains
    tags: common-sense, wisdom
    1662 likes



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