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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Letter Literature Man Merely
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?
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Dearer Enthusiasm Great Nothing Self Swallowing
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
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
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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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
And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Each Kindred Other Powerful Soul
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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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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