Goldsmith Composed

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    Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
    —Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774)

    The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
    Edgar Quinet (1803–1875)