“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
