“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.”
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To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
