If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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