Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony.
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I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.
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I never found even in my juvenile hours that it was necessary to go a thousand miles in search of themes for moralizing.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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Alexander at the head of the world never tasted the true pleasure that boys of his own age have enjoyed at the head of a school.
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How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians.
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
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Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations.
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