Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMen 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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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 many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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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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