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

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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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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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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

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

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Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

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And I, the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing.

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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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No man does anything from a single motive.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

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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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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

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