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/ page 133 of 1205 /An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye.
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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I could not know Whether I suffered, or I did:...
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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.
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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection.
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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.
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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.
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