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English Writer best remembered for Imaginary Conversations, prose dialogues between historical personages. 1775-1864

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“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

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“People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.”

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“We talk on principle, but we act on interest”

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“The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.”

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“Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.”

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“A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.”

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“Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.”

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“Ambition has but one reward for all: A little power, a little transient fame; A grave to rest in, and a fading name!”

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“Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess”

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