"The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay."

-- Maureen Johnson

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“I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.”
“There were times my immaturity kept me from being all I wanted to be.”
“The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.”
“All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.”

Source : "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.
“The goal is the developed Kingdom of God, the New Jerusalem, a world order under God's law.”
“Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.”
“Real change happens bit by bit. It takes great effort to become effortless at anything. There are no quick fixes.”
“Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.”

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