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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.

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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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He who is master of all opinions can never be the bigot of any.
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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
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Words of love are works of love.
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Keep your working power at its maximum.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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Every man is his own greatest dupe.
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A blue eye is a true eye Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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The heart must glow before the tongue can gild.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
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