Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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