Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEither we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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