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“Nature enhances her beauty, to the eye of loving men, from their belief that the poet is beholding her shows at the same time. He is isolated among his contemporaries by truth and by his art, but w...”
“All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion, that every globe in the remotest hea...”
“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”
“Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.”
“The world is all gates all opportunities strings of tension waiting to be struck.”
“Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes by making them the fruit of his character.”
“Play out the game act well your part and if the gods have blundered we will not.”
“People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
“When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got mode...”
“Pain indolence sterility endless ennui have also their lesson for you.”
“It is time to be old To take in sail.”
“When we quarrel how we wish we had been blameless.”
“Artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like bees they must put their lives into the sting they give.”
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple which has no superfluous parts which exactly answers its ends.”
“Some thoughts always find us young and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
“Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no cant in it no excess of explanation and it is full of suggestions the raw material of possible poems and histories.”
“We look wishfully to emergencies to eventful revolutionary times ... and think how easy to have taken our part when the drum was rolling and the house was burning over our heads.”
“We change whether we like it or not.”
“Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.”
