Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime irrecognition of the unessential.James Russell Lowell
Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
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Now the heart is so full that a drop overfills it We are happy now because God wills it.
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The idol is the measure of the worshipper.
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