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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Feel Look Man Old She Woman
All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Milton 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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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