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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

It has been said that though God cannot alter the past, historians can; it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

See one promontory (said Socrates of old), one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.

All poets are mad.

A loose, plain, rude writer … I call a spade a spade.

Like watermen, that row one way and look another.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.

O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose

O saw ye bonnie Lesley,

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatsoever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Yet my great-grandfather was but a waterman, looking one way, and rowing another.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great

There’s a great text in Galatians,

When it was written, God and Robert

O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird.

All her hair

She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.

With shrieking and squeaking

Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,

That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,