If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA 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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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