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«Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.»
«None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.»
«If I should die, think only this of me: that there's some corner of a foreign field that is for ever England.»
Author: Rupert Brooke (Poet) | Keywords: corner, England, foreign
«If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters»
«Let mystery have its place in you; do not be always turning up your whole soil with the ploughshare of self-examination, but leave a little fallow corner in your heart ready for any seed the winds may bring...»
«Poetry is the kind of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye. You can be too well prepared for poetry. A conscientious interest in it is worse than no interest at all. . . . It's like a very faint star. If you look straight at it you can't see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.»
«Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned»
«I could not, at any age, be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.»
«Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character.»
«I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others' uses»

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