The excellence of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeables evaporate, from their being in close relationship with beauty and truth.
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The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
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I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.
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Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
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Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
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Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.
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