He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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Lives there the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant
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The man who cannot wonder, who does not habitually wonder and worship, ... is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
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