All powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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