No man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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