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“Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.”
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“Do not suffer life to stagnate, it will grow muddy for want of motion; commit yourself again to the current of the world.”
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and innovation, and the latter in elegance and refinement.”
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
― The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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