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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Enough Foresight Gladness Gratitude Joy Lesson Long Tale Wisdom
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Beast Either First Immortal Soul True Wisedt
We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Glorious Light Made Tear Thing
Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Beautiful Discover Exceed Good Great Habit Meed Poetry Reward Surround Wish
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All Explain Man Purpose Thing Think
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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After Day Idl Motion Nebat Ocean Painted Stuck Upon
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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