Tatian (120–180) Syrian writer
as quoted in Elaine Pagels, The Origin of Satan (1996), p. 134
“Imagination should
A reconciler, not a rebel, be,
To teach the heart of man to apprehend
Nature's vicissitudes, and bear his own,
With sympathetic fancy.”
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Urania in Act IV, sc. ii; p. 178.
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General sources
“A man used to vicissitudes is not easily dejected.”
Samuel Johnson book The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
Source: The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Chapter 12
“The poet should touch our heart by showing his own”
Leslie Stephen (1832–1904) British author, literary critic, and first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography
Quote by Thomas Hardy from The life of Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 by Florence Emily Hardy ASIN: B0027MJJSI Macmillan (1 Jan 1962)
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