Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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