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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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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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Show me one couple unhappy merely on account of their limited circumstances, and I will show you ten who are wretched from other causes.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.

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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.

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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

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Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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