Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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