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Music, When Soft Voices Die
Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.
poem by P.B. Shelley
Added by Dan Costinaş
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Literature: writing that means more than it says.
aphorism by Scott F. Parker
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Taking life as a joke needs a very serious decision.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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Answer July
Answer July —
Where is the Bee —
Where is the Blush —
Where is the Hay?
Ah, said July —
Where is the Seed —
Where is the Bud —
Where is the May —
Answer Thee — Me —
Nay — said the May —
Show me the Snow —
Show me the Bells —
Show me the Jay!
Quibbled the Jay —
Where be the Maize —
Where be the Haze —
Where be the Bur?
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poem by Emily Dickinson
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Hamlet: The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we could carry cannon by our sides.
classic line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
classic quote by William Butler Yeats (1909)
Added by Lucian Velea
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The death is not human. It never fails.
aphorism by Hasier Agirre, translated by Dan Costinaş
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He is the proper person to give advice to kings who neither dreads the loss of his head nor seeks for reward.
Saadi in Gulistan (The Rose Garden) (1258), translated by Francis Gladwin
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A true friend is one soul in two bodies.
quote by Aristotle
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Nothing can stop the attack of aircraft except other aircraft.
quote by Billy Mitchell
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