Quotations
Aristotle
He (384-322 BC) was a Greek philosopher. Plato was his teacher.
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| We make war that we may live in peace. | Nicomachean Ethics |
| Probable impossibilities are to be preferred improbable possibilities. | Poetics |
| Man is by nature a political animal. | Poetics |
| He who is unable to live in society, or who has no Politics need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. | Poetics |
Christopher Marlowe
He (1564-1593) was an English playwright and poet.
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| Come live with me, and be my love. And we will all the pleasure prove, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. I That valley, groves, hills and tields, Woods or sleepy mountain yields. | The passionate shepherd to his love. |
Edmund Burke
He (1729-1797) was an Irish born Whig politician and learned poet.
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| Tyrants seldom want pretext. | Personal Letter to a National Assembly Member |
| Between crafts and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. | Personal Letter to the Sheriff of Bristol. |
| A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. | Reflection on the Revolution in France |
| The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. | Speech on the Middlesex Election |
| The people are the masters. | Speech, Hansar |
Francis Bacon
He (1561-1626) was an English lawyer, courtier, philosopher and essayist.
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| A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. | Of Friendship (Essay) |
| Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. | Of Marriage and the Single Life |
| Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. | Of Studies |
| Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man | Of Studies |
| Histories make men wise; poets witty; trie Of Studies mathematics subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. | Of Studies |
| A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure | Of Truth |
| Opportunity makes a thief | Advice to the earth of Essex |
Gladstone
He (1809-1998) was a Former British Prime Minister and Liberal politician.
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Justice delayed is justice denied Justice hurried is justice buried | Legal Maxim |
John Donne
He (1572 - 1631) was an English poet.
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| If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. | The Good Morrow |
| Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus. | The Sun rising |
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime Nor; hours, days, months, which are the rags of time, | The Sun rising |
| She's all states, and all princes I Nothing else is. | The Sun rising |
| For; God's sake; hold your tongue, and Let me love. | The Canonization |
Alexander Pope
He (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet.
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| To err human; to forgive is' divine | An Essay on Criticism |
| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread | |
| A little learning is a dangerous thing |
John Milton
He (1608-1674) was an English epic poet.
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| Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven | Paradise Lost |
| ….....This childhood shows the man, | Paradise Regained |
As morning shows the daj Just are the ways of god, And justifiable to men; I Unless there be who think not God at all | Samson Agonistes |
| Love quarrels oft in pleasing cqncordjend. | Samson Agonistes |
A good book is trie precious life-blood of a master spirt, Embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life. | Samson Agonistes |
| Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue | Areopagitica |
| Freely according to conscience, above all liberties. | Areopagitica |
John Keats
He (1795-1821) was an English Romantic poet.
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| "Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"- That is all, Ye know on earth, and all you need to know. | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; | Ode on a Grecian Urn |
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hernlock had drunk | Ode to a Nightingale |
She dwells with Beauty-Beauty that must die; A thing of beauty is a joy for ever | Ode on Melancholy Endymion |
Jean Jacques Rousseau
He (1712-1778) was a French philosopher and novelist.
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| Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains | Social Contract |
Lord Byron
He (1788-1824) was an English Romantic poet.
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| Sweet is revenge-especially to women | Don Juan |
| Pleasure's sin and sometimes sin's a pleasure | Don Juan |
| Man's love is of man's life a thing apart is woman's whole existence | Don Juan |
Matthew Arnold
He (1822-1888) was a Victorian poet. "Dover Beach", "Rugby Chapel", "The Scholar Gipsy", Thirsis are his famous poems.
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| The sea of faith was once, too at the full, and round earth's shore | Dover Beach |
Love lends life a little grace A few sad smiles; | Mycemius |
| Poetry is a criticism of life. | Arnold's view |
| Truth sits upon the lips of dying men | Sohrab and Rustum |
Neil Armstrong
He (1930-2012) an American Astronaut, was first to land in the moon in the 21st July, 1969.
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| That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind | New York Times |
Napoleon Bonaparte
He (1769-1821) was a Former French emperor and famous politician.
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| The career open to the talents. | |
| England is a nation of Shopkeepers | |
| Give us good mothers and I shall give you good nation | |
| Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
He (1792-1822) was an English Romantic poet.
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I am daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursing of the sky. | The Cloud |
| If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? | Ode to the West Wind |
Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud, I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed. | Ode to the West Wind |
| Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest | To a Skylark |
| Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world | A Defence of Poetry world |
Robert Frost
He (1874-1963) was an American poet.
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep on a Snowy Evening | Stopping by Woods |
| Good fences make good neighbours | Mending wall |
S.T. Coleridge
He (1772-1834) was an English Romantic poet.
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Alone, alone, all, all alone Alone on a wide, wide sea | The Rime of The Ancient Mariner |
Water, water, everywhere Not a drop to drink | The Rime of The Ancient Mariner |
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small | The Rime of The Ancient Mariner |
Thomas Gray
He (1716 - 1771) was an English poet.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, I And waste its sweetness on the desert air | Elegy Written in a country Churchyard |
Socrates
He (469-399 B.C) was a Greek Philosopher.
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| I know nothing except the fact of my ignorane | Plato "Apology" |
| The unexamined life is not worth living It is never right to do wrong or to requite wrong with wrong or when we suffer evil to defend | Plato "Crito |
| It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another worid. | Plato "Apology" |
William Shakespeare
He (1564-1616) was an English playwright.
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| Cowards die many times before their death. | Julius Caesar |
| To be, or not to be; that is the question. | Hamlet |
| There are more things in heaven and earth, | Horatio, |
| Than are dreamt of in your philosophy | Hamlet |
| Brevity is the soul of wit. | Hamlet |
Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude. | As you like It |
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players | As you like It |
| All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this I little hand | Macbeth |
| Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, | Macbeth |
It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing | |
| Fair is foul, and foul is fair; | |
| A young man married is a man that's marre | |
| Sweet are the uses of adversity | |
All the word's stage, And all the men and Women merely players The have their exist and their entrance And each man in his time plays many parts His act being eyen ages' | As You like It |
Come hither, come hither, come hither Here shall he see. No enemy But winter and rough weather | Under the Green Wood Tree |
| Frailty the name is woman | Hamlet |
William Wordsworth
He (1770-1850) was an English Romantic poet.
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| Ten thousands saw I at a glance | I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud |
| The Child is the father of the Man | My Heart Leaps up When I Behold |
Behold her, single in the field, you solitary Highland Lass! | The Solitary Reaper |
William Blake
He (1757-1827) was an English poet and painter in romantic period. He wrote "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".
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| The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom | The Marriage and |
To Mercy Pity Peace and Lovers All pray in their distress | The Divine Image |
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