“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”
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“He who has no poetry in himself will find poetry in nothing.”
“The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.”
“Politeness is the art of bearing boredom without being bored.”
“A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.”
“A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”
“The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.”
“The important business of man is life, and the important business of life is death.”
“You go to truth by way of poetry and I go to poetry by way of truth.”
“In political institutions, almost everything we call an abuse was once a remedy.”
“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”
“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”
“You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.”
“Gravity is but the rind of wisdom; but it is a preservative rind.”
“There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.”
“Shall we be despised by foreign powers for hesitating so long at a word?”
“Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime.”