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 COLERIDGEA man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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