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- Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
- So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian is…
- The end of all knowledge should be in virtuous action.
- All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
- Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws.
- If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must…
- Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made…
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