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“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”

Victor Hugo · Men

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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

Poetry

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A library implies an act of faith.

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Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

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