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5714 Poet Quotes

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Dream Existence Fancy Future
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Because Chiefly Ever Expecting
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I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Active Effect Exertion Faith
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Beauty Development Excites Invariably
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Brute Directly Fidelity Frequent
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Afraid Brave Coward Either
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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

Absolutely Bold Criticism Foe
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

An Imagination Led Mob
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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Been Me Passion Poetry
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Attain Great Great Man Greatness
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.

Beautiful Contemplation Derived Intense
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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

About Against Argument Charity
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Exquisite Horror Impress Mind
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The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Admire Critic Fire Generous
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Intelligence Madness Science Sublimity
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

Anything Forget Make Note
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Able Been Dislike Has Been
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It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

General Most Nature Particular
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Always Analytic Fact Found
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Words are but the signs of ideas.

Ideas Signs Words
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Above Am Atrocity Between
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
Beautiful Beautiful Woman Death Most
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Argument Brought Evidently Evil
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Always Arise Experience Irrelevant
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

About Again Before Clear
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Begins Best Boundaries Death
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

According Between Desires Every
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Lord, help my poor soul.

Help Lord Poor Soul
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The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

Down Going Grand Like
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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Appear Dreams Man Realities
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Books Few Friends Like
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From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

Alive Die He Life
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Dangerous Dreadful Integrity Knowledge
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If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Counsel Despair Determination Diligence
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Attempted Ever First Must
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
First Great Requisite Self-Confidence
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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

Expect Folly Keep Others
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Affords Another Difficulties Forming
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

Any Attain Commonly Easier
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
About Carelessness Falsehood Intentionally
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Being Better Chance Commonly
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Art Attention Memory True
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

Conversation Does Had He
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.

Admiration Charms Distant Made
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

Artist Difficult Easiest Journalist
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

Between Both Cannot Distance
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No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Autumn Flowers Fruits He
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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Cannot Life Reciprocal Society
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When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

Mistake Room Company Feel
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