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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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