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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
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Grief is so far from retrieving a loss that it makes it greater but the way to lessen it is by a comparison with others' losses.
William Wycherley
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Nay, droop not, fellows innocence should be bold.
Philip Massinger
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Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.
Cyrano de Bergerac
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Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Blow the spirit-stirring harp like any thing! Let the piano's martial blast Rouse the Echoes of the Past
W. S. Gilbert
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The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
Charles Macklin
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Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other dainties bring us a whole sheep, serve a goat and forty-year old mead! And plenty of vodka, not vodka with all sorts of fancies, not with raisins and flavorings, but pure foaming vodka, that hisses and bubbles like mad.
Nikolai Gogol
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To understand everything is to hate nothing.
Romain Rolland
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Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.
Romain Rolland
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I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.
Dennis Potter
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If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?
Lady Gregory
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In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus
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His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing.
George Peele
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I have never received a telephone call that justified the excitement and fuss of the electronics involved. If I can't see somebody I love, for instance, such as a daughter, or a son, I would rather receive a letter.
William Saroyan
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Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
Clare Boothe Luce
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For in pure maidens, knowing not the marriage-bed, the glance of the eyes sinks from shame.
Aeschylus
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Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
Eugene Ionesco
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The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.
Pierre Corneille
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No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.
Aeschylus
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To he who avenges a father, nothing is impossible
Pierre Corneille
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Don't try to make intelligent decisions when your brain is hyped
Aeschylus
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Great events have sent before them their announcements.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The only true language in the world is a kiss.
Alfred de Musset
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There is no armour against fate.
James Shirley
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