The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEExperience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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