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#1

“The mind I love must have wild places.”
― Katherine Mansfield

#2

“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d”
― Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

tags: innocence

2539 likes

#3

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism

tags: angels, caution, delicacy, fearlessness, fools, indiscretion

1921 likes

#4

“A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: error, humility, wisdom

382 likes

#5

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted

714 likes

#6

“If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: misattributed-to-alexander-pope, misattributed-to-dorothy-parker

179 likes

#7

“Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so wisely - they are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.”
― Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

9 likes

#8

“Whether at Naishápúr or Babylon,
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,
The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.”
― Omar Khayyam Edward Fitzgerald

tags: mortality

7 likes

#9

“With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labour'd it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like Water and like Wind I go.”
― Edward FitzGerald

3 likes

#11

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam

tags: paraphrase-of-congreve

15963 likes

#12

“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King and a Selection of Poems

tags: age, heroism, poetry, ulysses

1257 likes

#13

“Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people said, a weed.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Complete Works of Alfred Tennyson

tags: criticism, judgement, poetry

592 likes

#14

“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: inspirational

180 likes

#15

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

134 likes

#16

“My purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the Western stars until I die.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

108 likes

#17

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: passion

91 likes

#18

“Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade

tags: the-charge-of-the-light-brigade

63 likes

#19

“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: action, despair

93 likes

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