Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great And feeling souls.
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The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
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Love truth, but pardon error.
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The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.
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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
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