No man does anything from a single motive.
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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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 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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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