Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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No violent extreme endures.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... 'Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.'
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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