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If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

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There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

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If Art does not enlarge men’s sympathies, it does nothing morally.

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Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowled...more

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I cannot imagine myself without some opinion, but I wish to have good reasons for them.

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It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

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To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing ...more

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Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a mo...more

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Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat...more

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O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In de...more

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[She was] a creature full of eager, passionate longings for all that was beautiful and glad; thirsty for all knowledge; with an ear straining after dr...more