A poet must needs be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.James Russell Lowell
I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest.
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
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Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
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Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote.
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