"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations."

Johnson, Samuel on language   

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth -- the true poet is very near the oracle."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on poetry and poets   

"Painting is silent poetry and poetry spoken, painting."

Simonides on painters and painting   

"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money."

Graves, Robert on poetry and poets   

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."

Parkhurst, Charles H. on home
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"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

Rochman, Hazel on books - reading
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"It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."

Wilder, Thornton on conflict
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"If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?"

Lewis, C. S. on death
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"What the inner voice says will not disappoint the hoping soul."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on soul   

"The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing playthings; he is less duped than his neighbor by his own nature. He judges more sanely, he sees things as they are. It is in this that his liberty consists -- in the ability to see clearly and soberly, in the power of mental record."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on philosophers and philosophy
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom."

Unknown, Source on wisdom   

"Eternal life does not begin with death; it begins with faith."

Shoemaker, Samuel M. on faith
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"Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone."

Marvell, Andrew on solitude   

"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."

Mann, Thomas on solitude
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"True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow."

Hoagland, Edward on solitude   

"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity."

Milton, John on death
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"If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments."

Epictetus on soul   

"It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on virtue
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"To every man there openeth A way, and ways, and a way. And the high soul climbs the high way, And the low soul gropes the low: And in between, on the misty flats, The rest drift to and fro. But to every man there openeth A high way and a low, And every man decideth. The way his soul shall go."

Oxenham, John on choice
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"A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance."

Disraeli, Benjamin on destiny
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"Hope is the dream of a soul awake."

Proverb, French on hope
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"Imagination is the eye of the soul."

Joubert, Joseph on imagination   

"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore."

Cowper, William on solitude
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"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on nostalgia
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"Oh, for boyhood's painless play, sleep that wakes in laughing day, health that mocks the doctor's rules, knowledge never learned of schools."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on nostalgia   

"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"The fool needs company, the wise solitude."

Ruckett on fools and foolishness
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"In solitude, where we are least alone."

Byron, Lord on solitude
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"The thoughtful soul to solitude retires."

Khayyam, Omar on solitude
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"In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages."

Mathews, William on solitude
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"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on fantasy
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."

Jung, Carl on imagination
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"In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself."

Sterne, Laurence on solitude
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