Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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Let him who wants to move and convince others be first moved and convinced himself.
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