Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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