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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
Topic: Sound
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and the messenger of dawn, Circling above the hamlets as thy nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame. -Henry David Thoreau-.
Topic: Grace
Author: Henry David Thoreau
I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: William J Clinton
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
Topic: Society
Author: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Don't be afraid of opposition; Remember a kite rises against, not with the wind.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
I go to see the sun for the last time.
Topic: Last Words
Author: Lord Horatio Nelson
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Topic: Speech
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.
Topic: Laughter
Author: Carolyn Llewellyn
Voluptuaries, consumed by their senses, always begin by flinging themselves with a great display of frenzy into an abyss. But they survive, they come to the surface again. And they develop a routine of the abyss: "It's four o clock. At five I have my abyss... ".
Topic: Negativity
Author: Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.
Topic: Courage
Author: Robert Cody
The forest laments in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire.
Topic: Environment
Author: Sir Randolph Henry
And all at Worcester but the honour lost.
Topic: Honor
Author: John Dryden
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Topic: Faith
Author: William Hazlitt
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
Topic: Harmony
Author: Heraclitus Of Ephesus
The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might To eat with apple-tart.
Topic: Cows
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
Topic: Men and Women
Author: F M Knowles
When cats run home and light is come, And dew is cold upon the ground, And the far-off stream is dumb, And the whirring sail goes round, And the whirring sail goes round; Alone and warming his five wits, The white owl in the belfry sits.
Topic: Owls
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, "There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Topic: Girls
Author: Marilyn Monroe
Think not I am what I appear.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Lord Byron
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them.
Topic: Value
Author: George Bernard Shaw