A leading American author, poet, and early civil rights activist.. author poet folklorist and civil rights leader
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Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. Go to Quote / Comment
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy. Go to Quote / Comment
The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years. Go to Quote / Comment
Poetry cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. Go to Quote / Comment
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit. Go to Quote / Comment