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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
- Nov 07, 2020
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
- Criticism
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- Nov 07, 2020
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020