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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. William Wordsworth

Feelings Poetry Emotion Takes Powerful Spontaneous Overflow Tranquility Origin

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go. E. E. Cummings

Good Hell Universe Go Listen Door Next Next Door

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events. Adrienne Rich

Journey Memories Events Complicated Past Every Delusions Real False

Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine. Christina Rossetti

Love Valentines Day Our Mine Shall Token Yours

Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay

Light Owes Birth Shadow

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. Khalil Gibran

Beautiful Rights Human Being Others Noble Most Safeguarding End Human Being

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it. Maya Angelou

Love Great You Whatever Able Sacrifices Make Want To Love

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. Maya Angelou

Day Me Prayer Church Sunday Long Practice Monday Every Sick Gatherings Every Sunday Took Meeting Those All Day Visit Wednesday Thursday Missionary Friday Tuesday Board Mean Then Grandmother Choir Sang Usher Evening Night

When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Octavio Paz

Character Reality Hypocrisy Thinking Negation Consists Finds Disagreeable Also Because Affects Trait Irrational Repugnant Aspects

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. Rabindranath Tagore

Great Humility Come Nearest

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You Change Win Lose Were Used Enjoyed

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise. Rumi

Day Marriage Every Day Paradise Laughter Every Our May Full

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman

Soul Age Old Enthusiasm Wrinkles Skin Living Our Give Wrinkle Merely Nobody Ideals Years Up May Grow Grows Number

Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure. Sophocles

Unjust Secure Fraud Through Never Gained Things

It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them. T. S. Eliot

You Wise Rules Observe Know Until How Them Violate

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. Edgar Allan Poe

You Wish Remembered Make Spot Forget Anything Note Thing

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Day Age Youth Opportunity Sky Stars Though Dress Fades Invisible Another Itself Than Less Evening Filled Away Twilight

A person hears only what they understand. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only Understand Hears Person

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together. John Greenleaf Whittier

Me You Together Both Lift Ascend

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