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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Ame Believe Different Diverse Growth Period Understand
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Countenance Every History Human Least Observer Often Prophecy Reflect Saden
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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Glorious Light Made Tear Thing
A great mind must be androgynous.
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