Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity --it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

Adam Smith

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science.

Albert Einstein

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

Human has no experience at all aboutliving in a peaceful world without war.

Toba Beta

Do not ask for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.

Ernest Hemingway

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

The hardest work of all is to do nothing.

Proverb