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The glory dies not, and the grief is past.
He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.
Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."