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    Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

    Nature | Art | Poetry


    The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.

    Stars | Sky | Body


    A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

    Evil | Impossible | Far


    Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

    Moral | Immoral | Reasons


    My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.

    War | History | Peace


    The offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.

    Decision | Moment | Office


    The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

    Evil | Impossible | Far


    The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

    Religion | Heaven | Main


    Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

    War | Treat | Help


    A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

    Beautiful | Woman | Ugly


    Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

    Argument | Morals | Manners


    Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

    Nature | Society | Law


    If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.

    Worst | Full


    No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.

    Learn | Profit | Pleasure


    Dialect words are those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

    Words | Beast | Terrible


    My opinion is that a poet should express the emotion of all the ages and the thought of his own.

    Opinion | Emotion | Ages


    Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

    Road | Enemy | Flight


    Aspect are within us, and who seems most kingly is king.

    King | Within | Seems


    The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

    Hope | Scar | Ultimate


    Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

    Honor | Care | Deserving


       

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