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    "Whose name was writ in water!" What large laughter
    Among the immortals when that word was brought!
    Then when his fiery spirit rose flaming after,
    High toward the topmost heaven of heavens up-caught!
    "All hail! our younger brother!" Shakespeare said,
    And Dante nodded his imperial head.

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Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.

by W. H. Auden Found in: Names Quotes,
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Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?

Having supplied them with names, omnipotence, justice, knowledge, providence, - what are they?

by Anonymous Found in: Names Quotes,
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The dodgerest of all the dodgers.

The dodgerest of all the dodgers.

by Charles Dickens Found in: Names Quotes,
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I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and read more

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

by Martina Navratilova Found in: Names Quotes,
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Oh! no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
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Oh! no! we never mention her,
Her name is never heard;
My lips are now forbid to speak
That once familiar word.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly,

by Thomas Haynes Bayly Found in: Names Quotes,
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Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.

Called me wessel, Sammy--a wessel of wrath.

by Charles Dickens Found in: Names Quotes,
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It read more

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

by Henry David Thoreau Found in: Names Quotes,
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Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."

Known by the sobriquet of "The Artful Dodger."

by Charles Dickens Found in: Names Quotes,
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I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
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I have a passion for the name of "Mary,"
For once it was a magic sound to me,
And still it half calls up the realms of fairy,
Where I beheld what never was to be.

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