The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

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Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

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There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.

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If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

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My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

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Cardinal Bembo's Epitaph on Raphael

Here's one in whom Nature feared--faint at such vying -
Eclipse while he lived, and decease at his dying.

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Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

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