A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry.

Ben Johnson
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  1. The mind may never achieve or express anything great unless emotion plays a part.

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  3. Things wrote with labor deserve to be so read and will last their age.

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  5. They that know no evil will suspect none.

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