The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
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