"Power is the first good."
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"I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes."
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"The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning."
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"Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose."
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"A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn."
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"The picture waits for my verdict; it is not to command me, but I am to settle its claim to praise."
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"We cannot forgive another for not being ourselves."
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"Within, I do not find wrinkles and used heart, but unspent youth."
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"The finest poems of the world have been expedients to get bread."
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"The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American."
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"No society can ever be so large as one man."
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"When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor."
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"Let a man behave in his own house as a guest."
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"Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands."
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"How much finer things are in composition than alone."
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"In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord."
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"There is no history; only biography."
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"The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is."
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"Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not."
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"The world is always childish, and with each new gewgaw of a revolution or new constitution that it finds, thinks it shall never cry any more."
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