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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
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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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Error Great Horizon Man Probability Refraction Rudeness Some Treat Truth Wise
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Head Heart Knew never Philantrophy Somewhere Trader Wrong
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
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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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale
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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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
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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Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Atheist Denies God Idea

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