The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
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Angel of health, did ever you know pain?
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
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Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
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Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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