The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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