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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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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.

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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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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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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty.

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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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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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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

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