There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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