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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.
Howard Nemerov
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.


D. H. Lawrence
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A man has always to be busy with his thoughts if anything is to be accomplished.


Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
John Drinkwater
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A feeble body weakens the mind.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tags: Mind Body Feeble
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.


Edmund Burke
Speech is one of the marvels that characterize man, and also one of the most difficult spontaneous creations that have been accomplished by nature.
Maria Montessori
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The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.
LZ Granderson
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What an encouraging thought that Jesus - our beloved Husband - can find comfort in our lowly feeble gifts! Can this be, for it seems far too good to be true? May we then be willing to endure trials or even death itself if through these hardships we are assisted in bringing gladness to Immanuel's heart.
Charles Spurgeon
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Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked.


Ralph Nader
A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.
John C. Calhoun
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I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.


Christopher Hampton
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Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.


Sara Teasdale
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
Randall Jarrell
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I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.


Golda Meir
In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
Tags: Man Over Through
It is a rare privilege to watch the birth, growth, and first feeble struggles of a living mind; this privilege is mine.
Anne Sullivan
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When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.
Albert Murray
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