Law it is ... which hears without ears, sees without eyes, moves without feet and seizes without hands.
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Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.Marsilio Ficino
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, but the beauty and soul in his aspect ... runs into fable, personifies every fact....
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Artists in each of the arts seek after and care for nothing but love.
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There is a moment in the history of every nation, when ... the perceptive powers reach their ripeness and have not yet become microscopic so that man, at that instant ... with his feet still planted on the immense forces of night, converses by his eyes and brain with solar and stellar creation.
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... the poor man, whom the law does not allow to take ... a pair of shoes for his freezing feet, is allowed to put his hand into the pocket of the rich, and say, You shall educate me....
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What is odious but ... people ... who toast their feet on the register....
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