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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
To name an object is to deprive a poem of three-fourths of its pleasure, which consists in a little-by-little guessing game; the ideal is to suggest.
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Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
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Robert Cecil Day Lewis
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
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Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
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Madame de Lambert
None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.
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James Goldsmith
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
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Tyron Edwards
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children.
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Brian Sutton-Smith
Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
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