“When fear admits no hope of safety, then / Necessity makes dastards valiant men.”
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“Let moderation on thy passions wait; / Who loves too much, too much the lov'd will hate.”
“Like will to like, each creature loves his kind; / Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.”
“Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is, when love's honey has a dash of gall.”
“Of all our parts, the eyes express / The sweetest kind of bashfulness.”
“The body sins not, 'tis the will / That makes the action, good or ill.”
“In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, / Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.”
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters.”
“Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.”
“The British were mostly philistines, and they left behind a heritage of philistinism.”
“The scientific approach to life is not necessarily appropriate to states of visceral anguish.”
“Love seems inevitable, necessary, as normal and as easy a process as respiration.”
“I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.”
“The questioning of linguistic conventions is one of the main duties of what we call literature.”
“All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.”
“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart!”