Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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