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“It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.”
“Of the two, I prefer those who render vice lovable to those who degrade virtue.”
“One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.”
“Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.”
“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
“Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
“Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.”
“How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!”
“Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.”
“Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.”
“Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits.”
“Our worries always come from our weaknesses.”
“We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.”
“What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.”
“The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry”
“Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.”
“Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.”
“The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.”
“All good verses are like impromptus made at leisure.”