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Pamphleteer Inspirational Quotes (518)

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The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
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I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest. O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
William Cobbett
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Never say No when the world says Aye.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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A ridiculous passion which hath no being but in play-books and romances.
Jonathan Swift
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Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift
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So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum.
Jonathan Swift
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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.
Jonathan Swift
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America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin Smith
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Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age but that of a good one will not reform it.
Jonathan Swift
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Pride, ill nature, and want of sense are the three great sources of ill manners without some one of these defects, no man will behave himself ill for want of experience, or what, in the language of fools, is called knowing the world.
Jonathan Swift
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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.
Jonathan Swift
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The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides.
Jonathan Swift
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It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.
Antoine Rivarol
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And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
Jonathan Swift
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I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.
Jonathan Swift
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