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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
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"Every great soul was inspired by another great soul."
"Success is not about impressing and pleasing everyone, but setting your own goals, and achieving them in your own time."
"The secret to success is belief and hard work."
"Moving forward with success is a greater accomplishment, when we bring others along with us."
"The more we realize our minuteness and our impotence in the face of cosmic forces the more astonishing becomes what human beings have achieved."
"Strive toward what you know you must achieve, in confident & courageous manner."
"Mark this on your wall and remember it always: The greatest single most powerful enemy to success is success itself."
"A journey is an achievement, Maria, just as much as a mathematical proof."
"To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible."
"The achievement of the goal is only a stepping-stone to the next, bigger and better goal. It never stops."
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"It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature."
"To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people."
"A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being."
"For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts."
"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."
"The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely."
"We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible."
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