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- The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.
- Charles Simmons
- Every divine promise is built upon four pillars; God's justice or holiness, which will not suffer Him to deceive; His grace or goodness, which will not suffer Him to forget; His truth, which will not suffer Him to change; and His power, which makes Him able to accomplish.
- Salter
- There is a diabolical trio existing in the natural man, implacable, inextinguishable, co-operative and consentaneous, pride, envy, and hate; pride that makes us fancy we deserve all the goods that others possess; envy that some should be admired while we are overlooked; and hate, because all that is bestowed on others, diminishes the sum we think due to ourselves.
- C. C. Colton
- I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The good poet sticks to his real loves, to see within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
- Karl Shapiro
- Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
- Zona Gale
- No good poem, however confessional is may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
- Robert Cecil Day Lewis
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