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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

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One man cannot practice many arts with success.

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We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

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To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

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Courage is a kind of salvation.

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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