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“Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.”

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Robert Frost, born on March 26, 1874, and died on January 29, 1963, was one of the most renowned poets of the 20th century in the United States. He is known for his profound philosophy and unique poetic style, which often explores themes such as nature, life, and morality. more

“It is all a question of sensitiveness. Brute force and overbearing may make a terrific effect. But in the end, that which lives by delicate sensitiveness. If it were a question of brute force, not a single human baby would survive for a fortnight. It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time. But for the green grass, no empire would rise, no man would eat bread: for grain is grass; and Hercules or Napoleon or Henry Ford would alike be denied existence.”

Source: Etruscan Places

“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.”

People Persons Sensitivity Toes Corn

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.”

Men Half Positive Atheism Priests Nun

Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train.”

Pure Train Grain Sober Nun Robes Steadfast Majestic Pensive Demure

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited with Introductions, Notes and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson

“The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”

Men Doe Christianity Buddhism Gains West East Devices Infinity Glimpse Antiquity Nun Present Time

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a work of primitive art, housed in a magical color; the incarnation of civilized, anti-heathenism, and the fruit of a triumphing idea.”

Art Ideas Black Color Sight Fruit Strikes Native Civilized Rooted Primitive Incarnation Nun Sentimentality

Book:The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”

Flower Prison Former Latter Jail Brutal Delicacy Fragility Convicts Close Relationship Insensitivity

Book:The thief's journal

Source: The thief's journal

“We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.”

Moments Pain Records Events Sorrow Prison Bitter Jail Prison Time

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”

Stills Life Is Mother House Born Liberty Our Lives Wall Prison Jail Prisoner Execution Going Out Womb Prison Life Prison Walls

Book:John Donne: The Major Works

Source: John Donne: The Major Works

“The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.”

Men Anxiety Prison Anxious Governors

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

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