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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

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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. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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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 principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

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Never pursue literature as a trade.

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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