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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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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.

~Bliss Carman

Topics: Agreed Cease Compromises Could Fact Facts Investigation Marks Merely Often Point Rid Tyranny Where Wish World

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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.

~Bliss Carman

Topics: Art Joy Longer Me Put Self Set Something Task Very Which I Can

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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.

~Bliss Carman

Topics: Developed Fact Fully Lacking Lives May Never Note Passion Perfection Rarely See Successful Which Wholly Will You

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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.

~Bliss Carman

Topics: Any Destroy Him Indifference Kind Life Long Long Run Man May Run Turn Will Wreck

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Poet

Born: April 15th, 1861

Died: June 8th, 1929

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