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The soul's joy lies in doing.

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In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

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The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.

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We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

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I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

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Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: August 4th, 1792

Died: July 8th, 1822

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