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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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