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The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.

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England, an old and exhausted island, must one day be contented, like other parents, to be strong only in her children.

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Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

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Genius appeals to the future.

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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

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After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

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His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

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It is with a good book as it is with good company.

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Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.

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The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters,—a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.

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The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.

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The populace drags down the gods to their own level.

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Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.

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The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine.

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Behind every individual closes organization; before him opens liberty,--the Better, the Best. The first and worse races are dead.The second and imperfect races are dying out, or remain for the maturing of the higher. In the latest race, in man, every generosity, every new perception, the love and praise he extorts from his fellows, are certificates of advance out of fate into freedom.

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If the East loves infinity, the West delights in boundaries.

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Nature is what you may do. There is much you may not do.

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Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

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When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.

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