All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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