Canadian - Poet | April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929
What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
Bliss Carman
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Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
ArtJoyMeSelfI CanTask
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
PassionPerfectionYouWillNever
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
LifeManLongKindRunWill
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