In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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