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You know when there's a star, like in show business, the star has her name in lights on the marquee! Right? And the star gets the money because the people come to see the star, right? Well, I'm the star, and all of you are in the chorus.
(Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-1956), U.S. athlete. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 55 (December 1977).
Said in the 1940s to her sister golfers at a meeting she had called of the Ladies' Professional Golf Association.)
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O star of morning and of liberty!
(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809-1882), U.S. poet. Divina Commedia (translated by Longfellow) (Sect. 6, l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Thou wert the morning star among the living
(Plato (fl. 492-347 B.C.), Greek philosopher. To Stella (l. 1). . .
Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, The. E. K. Chambers, comp. (1932) Oxford University Press.)
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Civilization," Society and Solitude (1870).)
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For each inclosed spirit is a star
Enlightening his own little sphere,
(Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. The Bird (l. 19-20). . .
Poets of the English Language, Vols. I-V. Vol. I: Langland to Spenser; Vol. II: Marlowe to Marvell; Vol. III: Milton to Goldsmith; Vol. IV: Blake to Poe; Vol. V: Tennyson to Yeats. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, eds. (1950) The Viking Press.)
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The sun is but a morning star.
(Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Conclusion," Walden (1854).
Last sentence.)
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The desire of the moth for the star,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. One word is too often profaned (l. 13). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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Far star that tickles for me my sensitive plate
And fries a couple of ebon atoms white....
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "Skeptic.")
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