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If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Quote by William Keepers Maxwell about imagination, contentment

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

Quote by William Keepers Maxwell about happiness, water, dark, light

Unlimited power corrupts the possessor.

Quote by William Pitt about power

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.

Quote by William Pitt about blood, poverty

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

Quote by William Pitt about reliability, heart

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Quote by William Cowper about absent, despair, hope, death, love

God made the country, and man made the town.

Quote by William Carlos Williams about opinion, city, country, god, man

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Quote by William Cowper about woman, happiness, nature, things

Who loves a garden loves a greenhouse too.

Quote by William Cowper about opinion, garden

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Quote by William Cowper about wisdom

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Quote by William Cowper about truth, wisdom

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Quote by Brad Pitt about success, order, contentment

Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.

Quote by Brad Pitt about success, bad, things, contentment

I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.

Quote by Brad Pitt about truth, hate, people, contentment

I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me.

Quote by Brad Pitt about opinion, faith, work, day, contentment, life

You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about opinion, consequences, world, contentment

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about humor, tolerance, contentment, people

When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

Quote by William Shakespeare about books, eyes

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about time, people, chance, love, happiness

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature, writers, poets