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Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obst

Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the will is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers – Victor Hugo

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Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. – Victor Hugo

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Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
Tis folly to be wise. – Thomas Gray

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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike – Harold Bloom

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The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbear,
And evn the rigid feature:
Yet neer with wits profane to range
Be complaisance extended;An atheist laughs a poor exchange
For deity offended. – Robert Burns

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Avarice, envy, pride,
Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all
On Fire. – Dante Alighieri

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