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The truth is perilous never to the true,
Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,
And to the false, error and truth alike,
Error is worse than ignorance.

— Philip James Bailey Festus (1813)

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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

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Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

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Love spends his all, and still hath store.

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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.

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