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"Learn to process what happens as a positive."
"The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations."
"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
"It is better to be positive than negative."
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"By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made."
"For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality."
"With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem."
"The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always."
"But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition."
"It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual."
"The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time."
"That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been."
"The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else."
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