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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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