Quotes by Epic Poems A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face. Alexandre Dumas epic-poems hypocrite men Considered subjectively, philosophy always begins in the middle, like an epic poem. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel epic-poems epic philosophy We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us. Leo Tolstoy epic-poems ruts usual It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. Miguel de Cervantes epic-poems should-have writing Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done. Seamus Heaney epic-poems mind two Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. William Shakespeare epic-poems voice men