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Quote by Francis Bacon
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the offi

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of mans body. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. – Francis Bacon

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A bachelors life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. – Francis Bacon

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Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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I dont live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does. – Charles Olson

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To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed. – Brian Harris

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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesnt suggest to the reader things from his own mind and recollection that he will read into it, and will add to what the poet has suggested. But I do think poetry readings are very important. – James Laughlin

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

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It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have. – Richard Dawkins

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Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended. – George W. Bush

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Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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