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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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