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Tennyson's most famous lines
- 1 To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
- 2 I am a part of all that I have met
- 3 I will drink / Life to the lees
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Real Rumi quotes from the Masnavi (with verse numbers)
- 1 If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
- 2 If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy.
- 3 Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, are your own nature reflected in them.
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The best Haruki Murakami quotes, book by book
- 1 Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.
- 2 If you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
- 3 Loving someone is like having a mental illness that’s not covered by health insurance.
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Rubén Darío's most famous lines
- 1 Youth, divine treasure, you're leaving never to return! When I want to cry, I don't, and sometimes I cry without meaning to…
- 2 The princess is sad… what can be wrong with the princess? Sighs escape from her strawberry mouth.
- 3 Happy the tree, which barely feels, and happier the hard stone, for it no longer feels at all.
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The best Mark Twain quotes (that he actually wrote)
- 1 The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- 2 Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please.
- 3 Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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The best-known Swahili proverbs (with translations)
- 1 Haraka haraka haina baraka.
- 2 Pole pole ndio mwendo.
- 3 Dua la kuku halimpati mwewe.
Grace Kelly
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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous quotes
- 1 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
- 2 Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."
- 3 It is the beating of his hideous heart!
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Warren Buffett's best quotes (with sources)
- 1 Try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.
- 2 You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
- 3 Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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José Ortega y Gasset's most famous quotes
- 1 I am I and my circumstance, and if I do not save it, I do not save myself.
- 2 Between wanting to be and believing one already is lies the distance from the tragic to the comic.
- 3 The vulgar soul, knowing itself vulgar, has the nerve to assert the right to vulgarity and impose it everywhere.
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Douglas Adams' best quotes
- 1 "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.
- 2 In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- 3 The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
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Samuel Johnson's best quotes (with sources)
- 1 Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- 2 Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
- 3 No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.
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The best-known verses of Yunus Emre
- 1 I did not come for disputes; my work is for love. The home of love is the heart: I came to build hearts.
- 2 If you have once broken a heart, the prayer you perform is no prayer; not even seventy-two nations could wash your hands and face clean.
- 3 Come, let us be friends and make things easy. Let us love and be loved: this world is left to no one.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's most quoted lines (with their source)
- 1 The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.
- 2 Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
- 3 I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.
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Joseph Brodsky's most famous lines and quotes
- 1 I want to choose neither country nor graveyard. To Vasilievsky Island I will come to die.
- 2 If you happen to be born in an Empire, it is best to live in a remote province by the sea.
- 3 Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's patronymic.
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The most famous quotes from The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 1 And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
- 2 To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.
- 3 Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
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The best lines from Tagore's Stray Birds
- 1 If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.
- 2 You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
- 3 Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's best quotes (with their source)
- 1 A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
- 2 I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all.
- 3 Here once the embattled farmers stood, / And fired the shot heard round the world.
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C. S. Lewis's best quotes (with the book they come from)
- 1 To love at all is to be vulnerable.
- 2 Friendship is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."
- 3 A children's story which is enjoyed only by children is a bad children's story.
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The most famous George Orwell quotes
- 1 Big Brother is watching you.
- 2 War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
- 3 All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The best Seinfeld quotes, episode by episode
- 1 No soup for you!
- 2 Serenity now!
- 3 Yada, yada, yada.
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Gloria Fuertes' most famous quotes and lines
- 1 A child with a book of poetry in their hands will never hold a weapon in them as an adult.
- 2 Before counting syllables, poets have to tell what is going on.
- 3 It costs dearly, gentlemen, to be a poet.
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Richard Feynman's best quotes – and two he never said
- 1 What I cannot create, I do not understand.
- 2 The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
- 3 Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.
Cooper M.
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Ray Bradbury's best quotes
- 1 There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
- 2 If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
- 3 If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.
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🤣 Jokes
The best catchphrases and words of Chiquito de la Calzada
- 1 Fistro!
- 2 Sinner of the prairie
- 3 See you later, Lucas!
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