Vincent Millay Quotes
21 Vincent Millay quotes:
"We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race."
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"I dread no more the first white in my hair, / Or even age itself, the easy shoe, / The cane, the wrinkled hands, the special chair / Time, doing this to me, may alter too / My sorrow, into something I can bear."
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"Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive."
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"God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart."
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"I love humanity but I hate people."
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"Euclid alone / Has looked on Beauty bare, Fortunate they / Who, though once only and then but far away, / Have heard her massive sandal set on stone."
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"A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him."
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"Tea was such a comfort."
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"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is."
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"Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world -- it is thin."
Caution Quotes
Distrust Quotes
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"Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age / The child is grown, and puts away childish things. / Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. / Nobody that matters, that is."
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"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down."
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"Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned."
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"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends It gives a lovely light! Edna St"
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"The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity."
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"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through."
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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it."
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"I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes."
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"Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does."
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"Pity me that the heart is slow to learn / What the swift mind beholds at every turn."
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