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Quote by Walter Scott
Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom

Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. – Walter Scott

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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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There is often as much poetry between the lines of a poem as in those lines. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. – Plutarch

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Have you ever heard a good joke? If youve ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then youre already on the way to poetry. Its about using words in very precise ways and using gesture. – Rita Dove

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry. – Rita Dove

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Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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The last of human freedoms – the ability to chose ones attitude in a given set of circumstances. – Viktor E. Frankl

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