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And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back

The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing , to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts, not a select party

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject