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| Man is by nature is a political Animal. |
Aristotle |
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| Reading Maketh a full man; Conference a Ready man; Writing an Exact man. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| Studies serve for delight, for ornament and for ability. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| Some books are to tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| History makes wise man. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| A Mixture of lie does ever add pleasure. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Studies |
| It is impossible to love and to be wise. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Truth |
| Oppurtunites makes of thief. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Love |
| Wives are young men's mistress, companies for middle age and old men's nurses. |
Francis Bacon |
Of marriage and Single Life |
| A good friend is another himself. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Friendship |
| Revenge is a kind of wild justice. |
Francis Bacon |
Of Revenge |
| Unmarried men are best friend, best master, best servants but not always best subjects. |
Francis Bacon |
Of marriage and Single Life |
| Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove. |
Christopher Marlowe |
Passionate Shepherd to his Love |
| Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of ilium? |
Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| Sweet Helen' make me immortal with a kiss. |
Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| Pluck up your hearts, since fate still rests out friend. ( Pluck up = to become more cheerful) |
Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| Hell is just a frame of mind. (Hell ⇨ নরক) |
Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| He that loves pleasure must for pleasure fall. |
Christopher Marlowe |
Doctor Faustus |
| To be or not to be that is the Question. |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
| Frailty thy name is woman. ( Thy ⇨ তোমার) |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
| Brevity is the soul of wit. (Wit ⇨ বুদ্ধি) |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Polonius) |
| There are nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Hamlet) |
| Neither a borrower nor a lender; for loan oft loses both itself and friend. |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Polonius) |
| When sorrows comes, they come not single spices but in battalions |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Claudius) |
| There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. |
William Shakespeare |
Hamlet (Hamlet) |
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| Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. |
William Shakespeare |
Two Gentle of verona |
| All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players. They have their exists and their entrance and each man in the time plays many parts. |
William Shakespeare |
As You like it (Jacks) |
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| Sweet are the uses of adversity. |
William Shakespeare |
As You like it (Duke Frederic) |
| All the perfumes of Arabia wil not sweeten this little hand. |
William Shakespeare |
Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) |
| Fair is foul and foul is fair. |
William Shakespeare |
Macbeth (Witches) |
| Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. |
William Shakespeare |
Macbeth (Mackbeth-Marshal of King of Scotland, Duncan) |
| Cowards die many times before their death. But the valiant never taste of death but once. |
William Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar (Kalpurnia to Julius Caesar) |
| Veni, vidi, vici (I came, I Saw, I conquered) |
William Shakespeare |
Julius Caesar (Julius Caesar) |
| Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them. |
William Shakespeare |
Twelfth Night |
| Love looks not with the eyes but with the mind. |
William Shakespeare |
Mid Summer Night's Dream |
| What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
William Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) |
| Deny thy father and refuse thy name. (Thy = Your) |
William Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) |
| Good Night, Good Night! Parties is such sweet sorrow that I shall say good night till be morrow. (Morrow ⇨ আগামীকাল) |
William Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet (Juliet) |
| Tempt not a desperate man (Tempt = প্রলোভন/ Desperate = হতাশ করা) |
William Shakespeare |
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) |
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| For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love. (Sake ⇨ অভিপ্রায়, হেতু) |
John Donne |
The Canonoization |
| For love, all love of other sights controls / And makes one little room, an everywhere. |
John Donne |
The Good morrow |
| If our two loves be one, or thou and I/ Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die. (Thou ⇨তুমি/ Alike ⇨ একইভাবে, Slacken ⇨ হ্রাস পাওয়া) |
John Donne |
The Good Morrow |
| If they be two, they are two so/ as stiff twin compasses are two,/ They soul the fixed foot, makes no show/ to move, but doth, if the other do. (stiff ⇨ কঠিন/ Soul ⇨ আত্মা/ Doth ⇨ তাড়না) |
John Donne |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mouring |
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| Fair Daffodils, we weep to see > You haste away so soon; (Weep = ক্রন্দন করা/ Haste away ⇨ চলে যাওয়া) |
Robert herrick |
To Daffodils |
| Better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven. (Hell ⇨ নরক) |
John Milton |
Paradise Lost |
| Justify the ways of God to men. |
John Milton |
Paradise Lost এর Theme |
| Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the days |
John Milton |
Paradise Regained |
| Had we but would enough, and time > This coyness lady were no crime. (Coyness = লাজুক) |
Andrew Marvell |
To his Coy Mistress |
| But of my back I always hear/ Times winged chariot hurrying near/ And yonder all before us lye/ Deserts of vast eternity. |
Andrew Marvell |
To his Coy Mistress |
| The grave's fine and private place/ But none I think do their embrace. |
Andrew Marvell |
To his Coy Mistress |
| In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. |
John Bunynan |
Pilgrim's Progress |
| To vindicate the ways of God to man. (Vindicate =Prove) |
Alexander Pope |
An Essay on Man কবিতার Theme |
| A Little learning is a dangerous thing. |
Alexander Pope |
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| To err is human, forgive is divine. (Forgive = ক্ষমা করা) (Divine = স্বর্গীয়) |
Alexander Pope |
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| Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. |
Alexander Pope |
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| Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Honesty is the best policy. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. |
Benjamin Franklin |
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| I intended to have carried them with me to my grave. |
Henry Fielding |
Tom Jones (নায়িকা সোফিয়া) |
| Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air. |
Thomas Gray |
Elegy written in a country churchyard |
| I wandered lonely as a cloud |
William Wordsworth |
Daffodils |
| A thing of beauty gives us double pleasure. |
William Wordsworth |
Daffodils কবিতার Theme |
| Nature has a healing power to sorrow stricken heart. |
William Wordsworth |
Daffodils কবিতার Theme |
| A winning power, beyond all other power. |
William Wordsworth |
Tintern Abbey কবিতার Theme (Abbey = মঠ) |
| Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. (Betray = বিশ্বাসঘাতকতা করা) |
William Wordsworth |
Tintern Abbey (William wordsworth to Dorothy) |
| The child is father of the man. (My hearts Leaps Up when I Behold) |
William Wordsworth |
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| When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils. |
William Wordsworth |
The daffodils |
| Ten thousands saw I at a glance > Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. ( Tossing =উর্ধ্বে নিক্ষেপণ) (Sprightly = প্রাণবন্ত) |
William Wordsworth |
The daffodils |
| They flash upon that inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude. |
William Wordsworth |
The daffodils |
| Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. (Forgetting = বিস্মরণ) |
William Wordsworth |
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| Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. |
William Wordsworth |
Definition of Lyrical Ballad |
| The music in my heart I bore > Long after it was heard no more. (Bore = বিরক্ত) |
William Wordsworth |
The Solitary Reaper |
| Imagination is the soul of poetic genious. (Soul = আত্মা) |
S.T. Coleridge |
Biographia Literaria |
| Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge. |
S.T. Coleridge |
Biographia Literaria |
| Alone, alone, all, all alone > Alone on a wide, wide sea. |
S.T. Coleridge |
The Rime of Ancient Mariner |
| Water, water, everywhere > Nor any drop to drink. |
S.T. Coleridge |
The Rime of Ancient Mariner |
| He prayeth best, who loved best > All things both great and small. |
S.T. Coleridge |
The Rime of Ancient Mariner |
| Man's conscience is the oracle of God. (Oracle = দৈববাণী) |
Lord Byron |
Don Juan |
| Sweet is revenge-especially to women. (Revenge = প্রতিশোধ) |
Lord Byron |
Don Juan |
| Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis woman's whole existence. (Tis⇨ Truth) |
Lord Byron |
Don Juan |
| I loved, love you, for his love have lost, state, station, heaven, mankind's my own esteem. (Esteem = শ্রদ্ধা) |
Lord Byron |
Don Juan |
| All thing of great and small will perish. (Perish = বিনষ্ট হওয়া) |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
Ozaymandias কবিতার Theme |
| If winter comes, can spring be far behind? |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
Ode to the West Wind (West wind ⇨ পশ্চিমা বাতাস) |
| Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
To a Skylark (Skylark ⇨ সাদা রঙের পাখী) |
| We look before and after, and pine for what is not. (Pine = অনুশোচনা করা) |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
To a Skylark |
| Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. (Unackownledged = অস্বীকৃত) (Legislator = আইনপ্রণেতা) |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
A Defense of Poetry ( |
| I met a traveller from an anique land |
Percy Bysshe Shelly |
Ozaymandias |
| Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone (Trunk = দেহ / Trunkless legs ⇨ বিচ্চিন্ন পা) |
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| Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, |
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| Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, (Shattered visage ⇨ চূর্ণবিচূর্ণ মুখমণ্ডল/ frown ⇨ ভ্রূকুটি) |
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| And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, (Wrinkled lip ⇨ ভাজপড়া ঠোট/ sneer of cold command ⇨ শান্ত আদেশের অবজ্ঞাসূচক চাহনি) |
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| Tell that its sculptor well those passions read |
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| Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, |
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| The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. |
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| And on the pedestal these words appear |
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| "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: |
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| Look on my worjs, ye Mighty, and despair!" |
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| Nothing beside remains.. Round the decay |
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| Of thal colossak wreck, boundless and hare |
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| The lone and level sands strectch far away. |
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| A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. |
John Keats |
Endymion |
| Beauty is truth, truth is beauty. |
John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn (সমাধি) |
| Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. |
John Keats |
Ode on a Grecian Urn |
| Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? > Think not of them, thou hast thy music too. (Aye= চিরকাল, Thou= তুমি, Hast= |
John Keats |
Ode to Autumn |
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| The old order changeth, yielding place to new |
Lord Alfred Tennyson |
Mort d' Arthur |
| Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will, To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield's (strive ⇨ চেষ্টা করা, সংগ্রাম করা) |
Lord Alfred Tennyson |
Ulesses |
| Time held me green and dying > Though I sang in my chains like the sea. |
Dylan Thomas |
Fern Hill |
| Charity begins at home and justice begins next door. (Charity = উদারতা) |
Charles Dickens |
Great Expectation |
| Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. (Condemned = নিন্দিত) (Stiller = নিশ্চল) (Doom = নিয়তি) |
Charlotte Bronte |
Jane Eyre |
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| The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. |
Karl Marx |
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| Man make their own history. |
Karl Marx |
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| Religion is opium to the people. |
Karl Marx |
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| Poetry is at bottom a criticism of life. |
Mathew Arnold |
The study of poetry |
| Even science will appear incomplete without poetry. |
Mathew Arnold |
The study of poetry |
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| Life is not an exact science, it is an art. |
Samuel Butler |
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| Self preservation is the first law nature. |
Samuel Butler |
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| God was satisfied with his own work and that is fatal. (Fatal = মারাত্মক) |
Samuel Butler |
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| The greater the sinner, the greater the saint. (Sinner = পাপী) (Saint = সাধু) |
Thomas Hardy |
Tess of the D'urbervilles |
| Crime never goes without punishment. |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
Crime and Punishment |
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| Nine soldiers out of ten are born fools. |
G.B Shaw |
Arms and the Man |
| It is our duty to live as long as we can. |
G.B Shaw |
Arms and the Man |
| There are two tragedies in life, one is not to get your heart's desire, other is to get it. |
G.B Shaw |
Man and Superman |
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| All Changed, changed utterly > A terrible beauty is born. (দারুণভাবে) |
William Butler Yeats |
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| Home is the place where, when you have to go there. They have to take you in. |
Robert Frost |
The Death of the Hired man |
| Two roads diversed in a yellow wood, > And sorry I could not travel both. |
Robert Frost |
The Road not Taken |
| The woods are lovely , dark and deep but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. |
Robert Frost |
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| Good fences make good neighbours. |
Robert Frost |
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| God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it. |
Edward Morgan Forster |
A Passage to India |
| We may hate another but we hate you most. ⇨ Edward Morgan Forster (A Passage to India) |
Edward Morgan Forster |
A Passage to India |
| Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the World. ⇨ Nelson Mandela |
Nelson Mendela |
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| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. ⇨ Martin Luther King |
Martin Luther King |
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| Imagination is more important than Knowledge. ⇨ Albert Einstein |
Albert Einstein |
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| Justice is truth in action. ⇨ Benjamin Disraeli |
Benjamin Disraeli |
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