“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable”
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“Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable”
“Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance”
“You would be surprised how hard it often is to translate an action into thought”
“There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition”
“There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.”