People only see what they are prepared to see.
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Sentimentalists. . . adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we feel. . . .Ralph Waldo Emerson
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.
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To help the young soul, to add energy, inspire hope, and blow the coals into a useful flame to redeem defeat by new thought and firm action, this, though not easy, is the work of divine man.
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
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A beautiful woman is a practical poet.
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Commerce is of trivial import love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.
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