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Oscar Wilde 812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“For a hummingbird, winter comes 365 times a year.”
"The Mastery of Flight"
The Life of Birds (1998)
“O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
St. V
Source: Ode to the West Wind (1819)
Context: Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth
Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!
Be through my lips to unawakened earth
The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
“See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Winter (1726), l. 1.
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers”
Widely misattributed and misquoted. Coolidge was quoting Tennyson in a June 3, 1925 speech to the US Naval Academy. Foundations of the Republic pp 237 : THE NAVY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF PEACE The poet reminds us that "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast ...
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