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All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice

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Ruskin, John. The Stones of Venice: The Foundations. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Edler & Co., 1851, ch. 4.

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Ruskin, John. "The Stones of Venice." The Works of John Ruskin, edited by Edward Tyas Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. Vol. 11, Cambridge University Press, 2010, ch. 4.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "On the Principles of Genial Criticism Concerning the Fine Arts." Felix Farley's Bristol Journal. Bristol, Aug. and Sept. 1814.

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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Essays on the Principles of Genial Criticism." The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, vol. 11, pt. 1: Shorter Works and Fragments, edited by Kathleen Coburn. Princeton University Press, 2019.

With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

Astrophel and Stella

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Sidney, Philip. Astrophel and Stella. London: Thomas Newman, 1591, sonnet 31.

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Sidney, Philip. "Astrophil and Stella." Sir Philip Sidney: The Major Works, edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. Oxford University Press, 2009, sonnet 31.

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Thomas, Edward. "Early One Morning." Poems. Henry Holt/Selwyn & Blount, 1917, I. 15.

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Muir, John. Journal entry. 1869.

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Muir, John. "My First Summer in the Sierra." John Muir: Nature Writings. Library of America, 1997, ch. 6.

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Arnold, Matthew. Quoted in Collections and Recollections, written by G. W. E. Russell. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898, ch. 14. Originally stated to Russell by Arnold c. 1890.

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Raleigh, Walter. The Historie of the VVorld / In Five Bookes. London: Ben Jonson, 1614, bk. 5, ch. 6.

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Cowper, William. "Retirement." Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. London: J. Johnson, 1782.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Oxford: Henry Cripps, 1621, pt. 1.

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Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy, edited by Holbrook Jackson. New York Review Books, 2001, pt. 1.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes. London, 1813, pt. 3.

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Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Queen Mab." Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works, edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 3.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.

Roald Dahl

The Witches

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Dahl, Roald. The Witches. Jonathan Cape, 1983.

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Peacham, Henry. The Compleat Gentleman. London: Francis Constable, 1622.

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Colman, George. The Heir at Law. 15 July 1797, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Colman, George. "The Heir at Law." The Plays of George Colman the Younger, edited by Peter Tasch. Vol. 2, Routledge, 2023, act 1, sc. 2.

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Huxley, Aldous. "Variations on a Philosopher." Themes and Variations. Chatto & Windus/Harper & Brothers, 1950.

The God of nature never intended that Ireland should be a province, and by God she never will.

Thomas Goold

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Goold, Thomas. An Address to the People of Ireland on the Subject of the Projected Union. Dublin: J. Moore, 1799.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." Political Essays. London: William Hone, 1819.

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Hazlitt, William. "The Times Newspaper." The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt, edited by Duncan Wu. Vol. 4, Routledge, 2020.

The summer hath his joys,
And winter has delights;
Though love and all his pleasures are but toys,
They shorten tedious nights.

Thomas Campion

Third Book of Ayres

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Campion, Thomas. The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres. London, 1617, bk. 3.

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Hitchens, Christopher: "Ireland: 'We Ourselves': Suffering, Faith and Redemption." Critical Quarterly, Spring 1998.

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Hitchens, Christopher. "Ireland." Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere. Verso, 2000, pt. 1.