Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Either 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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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