Death cancels everything but truth and strips a man of everything but genius and virtue. It is a sort of natural canonization. It makes the meanest of us sacred --it installs the poet in his immortality, and lifts him to the skies.
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The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savours less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
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People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.
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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.
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Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.
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