"Hatred is the madness of the heart."

Byron, Lord on hatred
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"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."

Grimke, Angelina on education   

"I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for."

Grimke, Angelina on prayer
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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

Frost, Robert on grammar   

"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate."

Frost, Robert on art   

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

Frost, Robert on heaven
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"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise."

Frost, Robert on individuality   

"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"Two such as you with such a master speed cannot be parted nor be swept away from one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar."

Frost, Robert on marriage
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on god
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"The only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on fear
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"The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended -- and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended."

Frost, Robert on family   

"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich."

Frost, Robert on nationalities and nationalism
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."

Frost, Robert on confusion
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on hell
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"Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop."

Gaulle, Charles De on diplomacy   

"When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other."

Gaulle, Charles De on anger
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"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."

Gaulle, Charles De on master
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"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on nations
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on communication
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"The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have."

Frost, Robert on choice
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"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power."

Frost, Robert on power   

"What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?"

Frost, Robert on birth   

"No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard."

Frost, Robert on stardom   

"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

Frost, Robert on change
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"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Frost, Robert on liberals
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