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Deformity is daring; It is its essence to o'ertake mankind By heart and soul, and make itself the equal-- Ay, the superior of the rest. There is A spur in its halt movements, to become All that the others cannot, in such things As still are free for both, to compensate For stepdame Nature's avarice at first. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case? - Charles Caleb Colton Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who with a handsome person would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquillizing smiles of continual admiration. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater") Deformity is either natural, voluntary or adventitious, being either caused by God's unseen Providence (by men nicknamed chance), or by men's cruelty. - Thomas Fuller (1) Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's deformity? He said to himself, "If my person be crooked, my verses I shall be straight." - William Hazlitt (1) Am I to blame, if nature threw my body In so perverse a mould! yet when she cast Her envious hand upon my supple joints, Unable to resist, and rumpled them 0n heaps in their dark lodging; to revenge Her bungled work, she stamped my mind more fair, And as from chaos, huddled and deform'd, The gods struck fire, and lighted up the lamps That beautify the sky; so she inform'd This ill-shap'd body with a daring soul, And, making less than man, she made me more. - Nathaniel Lee Nature herself started back when thou wert born, And cried, "the work's not mine." The midwife stood aghast; and when she saw Thy mountain back and thy distorted legs, Thy face itself, Half-minted with the royal stamp of man, And half o'ercome with beast, she doubted long Whose right in thee were more; And know not if to burn thee in the flames Were not the holier work. - Nathaniel Lee From whence comes it that a cripple in body does not irritate us, and that a crippled mind enrages us? It is because a cripple sees that we go right, and a distorted mind says that it is we who go astray. But for that we should have more pity and less rage. - Blaise Pascal Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionably, That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them. But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty, To strut before a wanton ambling nymph. - William Shakespeare Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb: And, for I should not deal in her soft laws, She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub, To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to make my body; To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part, Like to a chaos, or an unlick'd bear-whelp, That carries no impression like the dam. And am I then a man to be belov'd? - William Shakespeare
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