William Wordsworth on Powerful Feelings with Poetry
“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.” ~ William Wordsworth
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Jane Austen Quotes on Happiness in Marriage
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.” ~ Jane Austen View some more quotes on Chance.
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Charles Dickens Quotes on Being a Father
“My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why
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D. H. Lawrence on Being a Priest of Love
“I shall always be a priest of love.” ~ D. H. Lawrence View some more related quotes on Love.
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D. H. Lawrence on the Most Complete Passion in the World
“The love between man and woman is the greatest and most complete passion the world will ever see, because it
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William Shakespeare Quotes on Father and God
“To you your father should be as a god.” ~ William Shakespeare View some more related quotes on Fathers.
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D. H. Lawrence Quotes on We’ve Got to Live
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. ~ D. H. Lawrence View some more Spiritual quotes
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes on Musical Glasses
“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.” ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Virginia Woolf Quotes on Life’s Moments Recorded
“Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.” ~ Virginia Woolf View some more related quotes on Life.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes on Having Lost Friends
“I have lost friends, some by death…others by sheer inability to cross the street.” ~ Virginia Woolf View some more
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George Eliot Quotes on Jokes and Affections
“A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.” ~ George Eliot View some more related
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Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes on Education and Society
“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes on Morning and Peace
I will make you brooches and toys for your delight Of bird-song at morning and star-shine at night. I will
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes on Who Will Love Me Forever
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Self Love Being Arrogant
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Life and New Wishes
“Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new
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James M. Barrie Quotes on Morning, Servant and Blinds
“How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?” ~ James M.
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James M. Barrie Quotes on Second Star & Morning
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” ~ James M. Barrie View some more Peter Pan quotes.
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Books and Friends
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. ~ Samuel Johnson View some more quotes on friends
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Samuel Johnson Quotes on Men and Life
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. ~ Samuel Johnson
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