A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
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They are slaves who fear to speak,
For the fallen and the weak.
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In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
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