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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. - Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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Samuel Johnson
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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. – Samuel Johnson

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great
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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. – Samuel Johnson

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Truth
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Other Quotes from
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Its always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal. – Carol Ann Duffy

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Poetry is a perfectly reasonable means of overcoming chaos. – I.A. Richards (1893–1979)

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Poetry

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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Poetry

Science and art, or by the same token, poetry and prose differ from one another like a journey and an excursion. The purpose of the journey is its goal, the purpose of an excursion is the process. – Franz Grillparzer

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Poetry

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Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin and dishonor. – Joseph Addison

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Any agreement that you have isnt going to be based on North Koreas intentions or trust. – Mitchell Reiss

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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. – Howard Hughes

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…and torture myself with happy thoughts… – Terri Guillemets

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