The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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 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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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