Abelard and Heloise, or, The Writer and the Human: A Series of Humorous Philosophical Aphorisms (1834)

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"Life is a poet; a book is a philosopher. The former examines unity in multiplicity; the latter, multiplicity in unity. Poetry considers a tree at some distance in order to enhance its charms and to strengthen its effect as it stands there, resplendent in full bloom with thousands and thousands of blossoms, and lets it be through the magical force of this direct beholding. But philosophy goes right up next to the tree, breaks off one or at most a pair of blossoms - since these bloss...