418 Quotes About Classics
- Author Christina Rossetti
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Morning and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:'Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy
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- Author Homer
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Ruin, eldest daughter of Zeus, she blinds us all, that fatal madness—she with those delicate feet of hers, never touching the earth, gliding over the heads of men to trap us all. She entangles one man, now another.
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- Author Homer
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…and they limp and halt, they’re all wrinkled, drawn, they squint to the side, can’t look you in the eyes, and always bent on duty, trudging after Ruin, maddening, blinding Ruin. But Ruin is strong and swift—She outstrips them all by far, stealing a march, leaping over the whole wide earth to bring mankind to grief.
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- Author Oscar Wilde
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For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.
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- Author Willima Ernest Henley
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I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul".
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- Author Rituparna Ray Chaudhuri
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I am too mediocre to be now at Oxford (Apeejay House) and on going at India's best site in Publishing Interview of Authors.
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- Author Margaret Mitchell
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There was an exciting atmosphere about the place that uplifted her. It was as if she could actually feel the accelerated steady pulse of the town's heart beating in time with her own.
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- Author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
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Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
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- Author Jane Austen
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Sometimes one is guided by what they say of themselves, and very frequently bu what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge.
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