Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
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Night holds Hippolytus the pure of stain,
Diana steads him nothing, he must stay;
And Theseus leaves Pirithous in the chain
The love of comrades cannot take away.
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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
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