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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Beautiful Flower Heaven Pluck Sleep Slept Strange Went
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
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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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
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
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale
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
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
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes

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