Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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