Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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