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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
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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Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed
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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
A great mind must be androgynous.
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Great Mind Must
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Eye Make Picture Shut Stop
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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All Almost Animal Concession Degree Differ Elephant Materailsitc School
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
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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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Atheist Denies God Idea
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Cease Deepest Give God Much Need never Night Singing Sorrow Thankful Trouble
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Family Father Heavenly Light Love Mother Same Softer

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