How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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