I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.
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Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry is life distilled.
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
I would live to study, and not study to live.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
This book fills a much-needed gap.
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it prevents you from achieving.
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seventeenth, poetry.
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
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The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
