Silence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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