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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPersecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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