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Rita Dove: What's invisible<br>sings, and...

Rita Dove: What's invisible
sings, and...

What's invisible
sings, and we bear witness.


Source: The Hill Has Something to...

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Alice Dunbar-Nelson: In every race,...

Alice Dunbar-Nelson: In every race,...

In every race, in every nation, and in every clime in every period of history there is always an eager-eyed group of...

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Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

Edith Nesbitt: It is wonderful...

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: One ship drives...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: One ship drives...

One ship drives east and another drives west
With the selfsame winds that flow.
'Tis the set of sails and not...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: No question is...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: No question is...

No question is ever settled
Until it is settled right.


Source: Settle the...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The two kinds...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: The two kinds...

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean
Are the people who lift and the people who...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox: With every deed...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox: With every deed...

With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.

Source:...

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Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

Zora Neale Hurston: There is no...

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's...

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Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Terry McMillan: Too many of...

Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down,...

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Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Charlotte Bronte: Look twice before...

Look twice before you leap.

Source: Shirley, ch. 9, 1849.
-- Charlotte Bronte,...

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Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Georgia Douglas Johnson: Rise with the...

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Source: Hope.
-- Georgia Douglas...

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Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

Anne Bradstreet: There is no...

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evill that we feel, or fear, but we...

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Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sophia Loren: Sex appeal is...

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've...

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Lauren Bacall: People should tell...

Lauren Bacall: People should tell...

People should tell your children what life is all about -- it's about work.

Source:...

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Elizabeth Taylor: It is strange......

Elizabeth Taylor: It is strange......

It is strange... that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for...

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Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

Jean Harlow: This place certainly...

This place certainly reeks of hospitality and good cheer, or maybe it's this cheese.

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Loretta Swit: So much of...

Loretta Swit: So much of...

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your...

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Mrs Patrick Campbell: When you were...

Mrs Patrick Campbell: When you were...

When you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once.

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Joan Collins: The easiest way...

Joan Collins: The easiest way...

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for...

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Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Agnes Repplier: Like simplicity and...

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face,...

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