“The downright fanatic is nearer to the heart of things than the cool and slippery disputant.”
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Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle.
Neutral men are the devil's allies.
At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.