Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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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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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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