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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?
William Saroyan
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
Aeschylus
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These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls!
Pierre Corneille
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Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels for you'll find it certain.
John Fletcher
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What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
William Saroyan
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It is an ill thing to be the first to bring news of ill.
Aeschylus
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Education ent only books and music - it's asking questions, all the time. There are millions of us, all over the country, and no one, not one of us, is asking questions, we're all taking the easiest way out.
Arnold Wesker
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Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
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Happiness seems made to be shared. [Fr., Le bonheur semble fait pour etre partage.]
Pierre Corneille
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If you will take me as your teacher, you will not kick against the pricks.
Aeschylus
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Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man.
William Saroyan
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What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
Douglas William Jerrold
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Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
Vittorio Alfieri
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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
Maurice Baring
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Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
Douglas William Jerrold
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What find you better or more honourable than age? Take the preheminence of it in everything, in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.
Shackerley Marmion
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Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.
Thomas Southerne
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Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
Aeschylus
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For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
Aeschylus
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Young men think old men are fools, but old men know young men are fools.
George Chapman
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How little room Do we take up in death, that, living, know No bounds!
James Shirley
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.
Christopher Marlowe
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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
Hugh Leonard
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Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.
John Webster
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