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All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: October 21st, 1772

Died: July 25th, 1834

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