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A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God’s image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.

The first and wisest of them all professed

O fairest of creation, last and best

So absolute she seems

Still govern thou my song,

My fairest, my espoused, my latest found,

Adam, the goodliest man of men since born

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense.

Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.

Of man’s first disobedience, and the fruit

The troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming.

Rhyme being … but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre.

Where perhaps some beauty lies,

And storied windows richly dight,

Sabrina fair,

How charming is divine philosophy!

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of heaven’s joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice, and Verse.

Blest pair of Sirens, pledges of heaven’s joy, Sphere-born harmonious sisters, Voice, and Verse.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form

The marble not yet carved can hold the form