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Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
But pleasures are like poppies spread:
You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.
There's no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering.
Heresie is the school of pride.
Heresie is the school of pride.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a
stormy sea.
'Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a
stormy sea.
