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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
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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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Form Foundation Home Outward Passion Win
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Artem Master One People Reflection Should
Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World

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