"Howe's Complaint" (1973), p. 15
The Good Word & Other Words (1978)
“But those with an evil heart seem to have a talent for destroying anything beautiful which is about to bloom.”
Source: Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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Act I, scene 1, line 45 (72).
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Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Context: In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those that are not entirely beautiful;
Yet many, that have played the fool
For beauty’s very self, has charm made wise.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
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The Journey Home (1977)
Source: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

Source: An Essay on The Principle of Population (First Edition 1798, unrevised), Chapter XIX, paragraph 2, lines 1-6
Context: The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.

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The London Literary Gazette, 1825

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