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/ page 711 of 1205 /No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
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Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
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True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
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Follow your own star!
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
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Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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Nature is the art of God.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
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From a little spark may burst a flame.
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