Shakespeare, the Romantics, and centuries of English verse.
Solitude sometimes is best society
— John Milton
"Solitude sometimes is best society"
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart..."
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways"
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor
— Edmund Spenser
"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poo..."
"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; look on my works, ye mighty, and despair"
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of …
— W.B. Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire"
Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die"
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies
— John Donne
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies"
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mank…
"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind"
Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun
— Seamus Heaney
"Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun"
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll f…
"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way"
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