Terror is but the relic of a childish
feeling; pity is not given to children. So said he; I know not
whether rightly, for the wisest differ on poetry, the knowledge of
which, like other most important truths, seems to be reserved for a
purer state of sensation and existence."
"O Cyrus, I have observed that the authors of good make men
very bad as often as they talk much about them."
"The habit of haranguing is in itself pernicious; I have known
even the conscientious and pious, the humane and liberal dried up by
it into egoism and vanity, and have watched the mind, growing black
and rancid in its own smoke."
GLORY.
"Glory is a light which shines from us on others, not from
others on us."
"If thou lovest Glory, thou must trust her truth. She
followeth him who doth not turn and gaze after her."
RICHARD I.
"Let me now tell my story . . to confession another time. I
sailed along the realms of my family; on the right was England, on
the left was France; little else could I discover than sterile
eminences and extensive shoals.
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