We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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