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"The wisest prophets make sure of the event first."
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"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."
"The story becomes clearer with time."
"A man who lacks understanding is susceptible to deception."
"Look on beauty,And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight;Which therein works a miracle in nature,Making them lightest that wear most of it:So are those crisped snaky golden locksWhich make such wanton gambols with the wind,Upon supposed fairness, often knownTo be the dowry of a second head,The skull that bred them in the sepulchre.Thus ornament is but the guiled shoreTo a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarfVeiling an Indian beauty; in a word,The seeming truth which cunning times put onTo entrap the wisest."
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"How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians."
"I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due."
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well."
"By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense."
"Poetry is a beautiful way of spoiling prose, and the laborious art of exchanging plain sense for harmony."
"Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of the passions and their operations in diversified situations."
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