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Suggest Revision: The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
 
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Suggest Revision: The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
 
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Suggest Revision: The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
 
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Suggest Revision: The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
 
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Suggest Revision: There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.
 
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Suggest Revision: There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
 
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Suggest Revision: To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
 
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Suggest Revision: A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove to-day on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
 
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Suggest Revision: A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
 
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Suggest Revision: Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
 
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