“Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.”
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“Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things.”
“I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.”
“Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.”
“Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.”
“Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit.”
“There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.”
“In spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.”
“He ne'er is crown'd With immortality, who fears to follow Where airy voices lead.”
“And for her eyes: what could such eyes do there But weep, and weep, that they were born so fair?”
“Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words.”