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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. - Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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Samuel Johnson
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I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world. – Samuel Johnson

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Portraits
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Samuel Johnson
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet. – Peter Davison

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Poetry

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I dont care thats what poetry is supposed to do. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. – Gilbert Murray

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Poetry

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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Poetry

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Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals. – LL Cool J

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With Napster and the sharing of music, of course, there are going to be people who exploit it. Greed has no end. But theres a lot of good that could happen. We shouldnt let the economic concerns of the major labels infringe on our freedom to share music. – Ian MacKaye

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In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law. – Aly Khan

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legal

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. – Oswald Chambers

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