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" After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style. "
Own
Judge
Great
" All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime. "
Almost
Crime
Much
" Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance. "
Rose
Doubt
Always
" Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius. "
Enthusiasm
Spirit
Over
" Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius. "
Fortune
Genius
Companion
" Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. "
Man
His
Qualities
" It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. "
Lies
Mediocrity
Taste
" Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth. "
Open
Men
Wealth
" Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. "
Must
Genius
Before
" Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses. "
Like
Things
Better
" The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. "
Act
Contemplation
Creates
" The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. "
Dunces
Defects
Great
" The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. "
Age
Opening
Reading
" The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities. "
Him
Golden
Genius
" Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt. "
Disasters
Until
Where
" The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. "
Critic
Criticism
Most
" The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities. "
Stubborn
Marked
" The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. "
Quotation
Wise
Experience
" The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. "
Wise
Fools
Make
" Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. "
Who
Will
Merit
" Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. "
Great
Men
Time
" To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination. "
Men
Genius
Feel
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