Prose talks and poetry sings.

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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

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Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

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There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.

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Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

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When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poet's task to turn it into an audience.

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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

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