The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
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To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
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If from the top of a long cold barren hill I hear the distant whistle of a thrush which seems to come up from some warm woody shelter beyond the edge of the hill, this sound coming faint over the rocks with a mingled feeling of strangeness and joy, the idea of the place about me, and the imaginary one beyond will all be combined together in such a manner in my mind as to become inseparable.
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The essence of poetry is will and passion.
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
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