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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don’t be.

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.