Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. Reflections on Literature and Morality
A little health now and again is the ailing person’s best remedy. The Wanderer and His Shadow
Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them. Book VII
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides. Persuasion
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