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History – a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
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Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.
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And we forget because we must and not because we will.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Nature, with equal mind, Sees all her sons at play, Sees man control the wind, The wind sweep man away.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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The bent of our time is towards science, towards knowing things as they are.
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Say, has some wet bird-haunted English lawn Lent it the music of its trees at dawn?
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Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.
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Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
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The difference between genuine poetry and the poetry of Dryden, Pope, and all their school, is briefly this: their poetry is conceived and composed in their wits, genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul.
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And long we try in vain to speak and act Our hidden self, and what we say and do Is eloquent, is well — but ’tis not true!
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.
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Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.
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