Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing 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 love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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