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

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

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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Equality
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Samuel Johnson
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I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any mans virtues the means of deceiving him. – Samuel Johnson

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great
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Samuel Johnson
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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – Samuel Johnson

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Fish, Fishing
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Samuel Johnson
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Other Quotes from
Poetry
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Poetry, like the moon, does not advertise anything. – William Blissett

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Poetry

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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Poetry

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. – T. S. Eliot

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Poetry

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Poetry

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I learned to change my accent in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back. – Sting

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Freedom is not a gift nor does it simply exist for us to have, but rather it is a sacred duty, and its blessed yield of hope is born from none other than the blood of the innocent. – Bryant H. McGill

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It is not necessary to be strong in every place if in the place you are vulnerable, you are loved. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Love

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. Im into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. Id love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef. – Jesse McCartney

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Birthday