What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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