Edward Dowden quotes
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“Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.”
-- Edward DowdenSource : "Shakespeare A Critical Study Of His Mind And Art".
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“For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.”
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“Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.”
-- Edward DowdenSource : Edward Dowden (1905). “Robert Browning”
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“Spring scarce had greener fields to show than these Of mid September; through the still warm noon The rivulets ripple forth a gladder tune Than ever in the summer; from the trees Dusk-green, and murmuring inward melodies, No leaf drops yet; only our evenings swoon In pallid skies more suddenly, and the moon Finds motionless white mists out on the leas.”
-- Edward DowdenSource : Edward Dowden (1877). “Poems”
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“What are you gonna do for a face when the baboon wants his ***** back?”
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“The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you'll fail ten times for every success.”
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“Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.”
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“It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.”
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“For words divide and rend But silence is most noble till the end.”
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