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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Enough Foresight Gladness Gratitude Joy Lesson Long Tale Wisdom
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Feel Look Man Old She Woman
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Flower Friendship Like Love Shelter Tree
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Alas Friend Poison Tongue Truth Whisper Youth
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Family Father Heavenly Light Love Mother Same Softer
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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Angel Depend Devil Downward Man Rise Sinki Upward

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