Quotations From British Literature

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"Earth's crammed with heaven,

And every common bush afire with God;

But only he who sees, takes off his shoes"

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(1806-1861)

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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there."

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Lewis Carroll

(1832-1898)

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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."

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William Butler Yeats

(1865-1939)

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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

(1809-1892)

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"Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows."

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John Milton

(1608-1674)

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"Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good."

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Anonymous from Beowulf

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"Come live with me and by my love, And we will all the pleasures prove... If these delights thy mind may move, then live with me and be my love."

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Christopher Marlowe

(1564-1593)

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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

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Sir Francis Bacon

(1561-1626)

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"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."

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Isaac Newton

(1642 - 1727)

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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

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Edmund Burke

(1729-1797)

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"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."

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Edmund Burke

(1729-1797)

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"London is a roost for every bird."

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Benjamin Disraeli

(1804-1881)

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"O, what a tangled web we weave;When first we practice to deceive!"

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Sir Walter Scott

(1771-1832)

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"What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."

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Jane Austen

(1775-1817)

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"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

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Percy B Shelley

(1792-1822)

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"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves."

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Mary Shelley

(1797-1851)

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"She walks in beauty, like the night

Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

And all that's best of dark and bright

Meet in her aspect and her eyes."

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Lord Byron

(1788-1824)

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"Men of letters are a perpetual Priesthood, from age to age, teaching all men that a God is still present in their life."

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Thomas Carlyle

(1795-1881)

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"Wandering between two worlds, one dead

The other powerless to be born"

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Matthew Arnold

(1822-1888)

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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

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Oscar Wilde

(1854-1900)

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"Not all who wander are lost."

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

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"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

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J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour."

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Blake, William

(1757-1827)