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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
The simplest questions are the most difficult.
— William S. Burroughs
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Only the rich are lonesome.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.
— James Gilmour
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Love me, honey, love me true?
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Love me well ez I love you?
An' she answe'd, " 'Cose I do"
Jump back, honey, jump back. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
— W. H. Auden
Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
All you hear Catholics turning out these days are pop versions of the old Protestant anthems.
— Richard Morris
Money is a great dignifier.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.
— Ramakrishna
A song fluttered down in the form of a dove,
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
And it bore me a message, the one word-Love! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
The age is materialistic. Verse isn't. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Even if they found themselves in Heaven, our countrymen would find occasion to remark that it was not as warm as Hell. Why's
— Viet Thanh Nguyen
See you on Titan, said the grin. And then it was gone.
— Kurt Vonnegut
People see me as someone who doesn't take any crap from anyone - which I don't - but it's my shtick, and I obviously don't act like that all the time.
— Miranda Lambert
How one suffered for one's children - all their upsets a hurt; all their joys a triumph. 'And
— Deryn Lake
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.
— Jonathan Kozol
We wear the mask that grins and lies.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar