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101 quotes from authors quoted once or twice, in alphabetical order. Each is given word for word, with its work, its passage and its source.

Novalis

1. “Love is silent; poesy alone can speak for it. Or rather love itself is nothing but the highest poetry of nature.”

Oliver Goldsmith

1. “We had no revolutions to fear, nor fatigues to undergo; all our adventures were by the fire-side, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. “Be through my lips to unawaken’d earth / The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”

2. “Music, when soft voices die, / Vibrates in the memory; / Odours, when sweet violets sicken, / Live within the sense they quicken.”

Plautus

1. “I commend you, in that you consider the affliction of your friend your own affliction. Now be of good heart.”

Rainer Maria Rilke

1. “I live my life in circles that grow wide And endlessly unroll, I may not reach the last, but on I glide Strong pinioned toward my goal.”

René Descartes

1. “My third maxim was to endeavor always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world, and in general, accustom myself to the persuasion that, except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.”

2. “This method, from the time I had begun to apply it, had been to me the source of satisfaction so intense as to lead me to believe that more perfect or more innocent could not be enjoyed in this life.”

Robert Burns

1. “O my Luve’s like a red, red rose / That’s newly sprung in June: / O my Luve’s like the melodie / That’s sweetly play’d in tune!”

2. “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And never brought to min'? / Should auld acquaintance be forgot, / And days o' lang syne?”

Rudyard Kipling

1. “I Keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When And How and Why and Who.”

2. “Oppress not the cubs of the stranger, but hail them as Sister and Brother, For though they are little and fubsy, it may be the Bear is their mother.”

Samuel Johnson

1. “To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat but exclusion from mankind.”

Samuel Smiles

1. “Honourable industry travels the same road with duty; and Providence has closely linked both with happiness.”

2. “Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. “He prayeth well, who loveth well / Both man and bird and beast. / He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small.”

Sei Shōnagon

1. “In summer, I love the night, not only when the moon is shining, but the dark too, when the fireflies cross each other’s paths in their flight, or when the rain is falling.”

2. “In autumn, it is the beauty of the evening which most deeply moves me, as I watch the crows seeking their roosting-place in twos and threes and fours, while the setting sun sends forth his beams gorgeously as he draws near the mountain’s rim.”

Seneca

1. “Why do we complain of Nature? she has dealt kindly with us. Life is long enough, if you know how to use it.”

2. “There is no such obstacle to true living as waiting, which loses to-day while it is depending on the morrow.”

Thomas Hardy

1. “It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”

Yosa Buson

1. “Why need we call thee fair, O night of Spring? / Dost thou not lie between Spring evening / And dawn of Spring?”

2. “A swift spring-shower — and see! / A rain-coat, and umbrella, chummily / Walking and talking together.”

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