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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

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Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

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We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.

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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!

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Mourn for me rather as living than as dead.

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There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

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Too few rejoice at a friend's good fortune.

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To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

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Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

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Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

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And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.

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Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.

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