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/ page 166 of 1205 /In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
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No one does anything from a single motive.
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A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are - 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.
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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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