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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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