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Top 20 Paul Laurence Dunbar Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.”

1. “All play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!”

2. “I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore,- When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings- I know why the caged bird sings!”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!”

3. “A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life!”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.”

4. “Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “We wear the mask that grins and lies.”

5. “We wear the mask that grins and lies.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.”

6. “With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.”

7. “I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best – God! but the interest!”

8. “Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best – God! but the interest!”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core.”

9. “But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core.”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.”

10. “This, this indeed is to be accursed, For if we mortals love, or if we sing, We count our joys not by what we have, But by what kept us from that perfect thing.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”

11. “I know what the caged bird feels, alas!”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “The age is materialistic. Verse isn’t. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.”

12. “The age is materialistic. Verse isn’t. I must be with the age, so I am writing prose.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”

13. “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Money is a great dignifier.”

14. “Money is a great dignifier.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “It’s all a farce, – these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o’er field and dell, Because the year is dying.”

15. “It’s all a farce, – these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o’er field and dell, Because the year is dying.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.”

16. “Oh, how with more than dreams the soul is torn, ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.”

17. “In his moments of pride he had said all those things, half in fun and half in earnest, and he began to wonder how he could have been so many kinds of a fool for so long without realising it.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!”

18. “A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double; And that is life! A crust and a corner that love makes precious, With a smile to warm and the tears to refresh us; And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter; And that is life!”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned.”

19. “Washington is the city where the big men of little towns come to be disillusioned.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.”

20. “Poor conceited humanity! Interpreters of God indeed.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Only the rich are lonesome.”

21. “Only the rich are lonesome.”

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Quote: “Some of the girl’s cheery hopefulness had come back to her in the presence of her brother’s dejection, as a woman always forgets her own sorrow when someone she loves is grieving.”

22. “Some of the girl’s cheery hopefulness had come back to her in the presence of her brother’s dejection, as a woman always forgets her own sorrow when someone she loves is grieving.”

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

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