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A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.  
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences a...  
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.  
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excite...  
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.  
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion w...  
I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all toge...  
I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.  
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with frie...  
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because ...  
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we ...  
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it...  
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary...  
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.   Poetry
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, whe...  
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and t...  
The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best ...  
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be ...  
The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silen...  
There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a pr...  
There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a bru...  
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those ...   Imagination
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those...  
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final l...  
To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can hi...  
We loved with a love that was more than love.   Love
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call ...  
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.