• Virtues

  I have no faith in human perfectibility. 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.

  3.8 · 63 votes · 63 reads

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• Art and Culture

  I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailin

  3.6 · 50 votes · 194 reads

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• Art and Culture

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

  4.5 · 26 votes · 14 reads

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• Virtues

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

  4.7 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• Various

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

  3.7 · 58 votes · 135 reads

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• Thought and Reason

  Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

  3.2 · 22 votes · 80 reads

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• Nature

  Thank Heaven! the crisis -The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last -, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

  4.9 · 57 votes · 44 reads

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• Defects

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

  4.0 · 43 votes · 14 reads

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• Nature

  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.

  4.8 · 62 votes · 168 reads

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• Feelings

  To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

  4.5 · 17 votes · 188 reads

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• Art and Culture

  With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

  4.2 · 24 votes · 68 reads

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