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ages power wisdom
The power is yours, but not the sight; / You see not upon what you tread; / You have the ages for your guide, / But not the wisdom to be led. Edwin A. Robinson
ages community people section
We want people of all ages from every section of the community to be involved.
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My face and skin trick is to moisturise well in the winter time, because the weather eats up your skin, and I never go to sleep with make up on. Someone told me it ages you ten years. Kelly Rowland
ages characters eligible inevitably life likely revived time tom written
In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't. Ed Stoppard
ages aristotle bergman human nature oneself plato serious since socrates thinkers understand
Since Socrates and Plato first speculated on the nature of the human mind, serious thinkers through the ages - from Aristotle to Descartes, from Aeschylus to Strindberg and Ingmar Bergman - have thought it wise to understand oneself and one's behavior. Eric Kandel
ages exclusive men women
We're high-end, exclusive for men and women ages 21 to 60.
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Yesterday I went out at about twelve, and visited the British Museum; an exceedingly tiresome affair. It quite crushes a person to see so much at once; and I wandered from hall to hall with a weary and heavy heart, wishing (Heaven forgive me!) that the Elgin marbles and the frieze of the Parthenon were all burnt into lime, and that the granite Egyptian statues were hewn and squared into building stones, and that the mummies had all turned to dust, two thousand years ago; and, in fine, that all the material relics of so many successive ages had disappeared with the generations that produced them. The present is burthened too much with the past. Nathaniel Hawthorne
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I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it. William Gibson
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I read hugely as a child, but I slowed up when the print got smaller. I am a very slow reader. I don't know why. Maybe it is like some people chewing their food for ages and some wolfing it down. Geraldine McCaughrean
english-novelist man served servitude
Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. Aldous Huxley
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Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do. Jonathan Coe
english-novelist
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear. Samuel Richardson
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A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.
english-novelist generally mother visitors wife
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
english-novelist man vast
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
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He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child. Anthony Burgess
english-novelist mind peace
Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind. Wilkie Collins
english-novelist gets human itself low race wisdom
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. Wilfrid Sheed
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry. Charles Dickens
poet companion whole-life
Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life. David McCullough
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
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The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poet true
The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver. Eugenio Montale
poet negotiation range
Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader. Edward Hirsch
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.
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There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.