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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Dreams
Edgar Allan Poe

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Nobody's ever the greatest anything.
Greatness
Maralyn Polak

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And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.
Gossip
Alexander Pope

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.
Change
Alexander Pope

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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Disappointments
Alexander Pope

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Many people are capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Generosity
Alexander Pope

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What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death.
Fame
Alexander Pope

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See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
Life and Living
Pope John XXIII

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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Hell
Karl Popper

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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
Heart
Antonio Porchia

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Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed.
Change
Irene Porter

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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
Crime and Criminals
O. Henry Porter

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Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
Education
Sylvia Porter

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There is a remedy for everything; it is called death.
Death and Dying
Portuguese Proverb

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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Writers and Writing
Ezra Pound

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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
Purpose
Adam Clayton Powell

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Live as if everything you do will eventually be known.
Life and Living
Hugh Prather

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I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Music
Elvis Presley

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Work is only work if you'd rather be doing something else.
Work
Ray Prince

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In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.
Argument
Matthew Prior

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There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke.
Humor
J. J. Procter

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In great things it is enough even to have willed.
Will and Will Power
Sextus Propertius

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In a separation it is the one who is not really in loved who says the more tender things.
Love Ended
Marcel Proust

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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Change
Marcel Proust

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Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Lies and Lying
Marcel Proust

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun