And thou my minde aspire to higher things;_x000D_ _x000D_ Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.
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Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.
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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
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Shallow brooks murmur most, deep and silent slide away.
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Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.
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If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.
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