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 | "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal
frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." | |
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Found in the topic Love.
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| "Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the
wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and
more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more
and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason
assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every
word." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "If you would be well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable
impression of you; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable
opinion of himself." | |
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Found in the topic Mind.
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| "Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls
wisdom." | |
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Found in the topic Common.
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| "It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, If any man obtain
that which he merits, Or any merit that which he obtains." | |
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Found in the topic Property.
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| "Prose - words in their best order; Poetry - the best words in their
best order." | |
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Found in the topic Poetry.
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| "He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and
small." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "The Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes
humility." | |
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Found in the topic Devil.
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| "Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the
heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are
possessed by them." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "You do not believe, you only believe that you believe." | |
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Found in the topic Religion.
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| "Life is but thought." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the
trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests." | |
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Found in the topic Language.
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| "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius,
being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never." | |
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Found in the topic Genius.
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| "No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a
profound philosopher." | |
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Found in the topic Rights.
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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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Found in the topic Aphorism.
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| "A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn." | |
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Found in the topic Experience.
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| "Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon,
and the deeper it sinks into the mind." | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "So lonely "t was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be." | |
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Found in the topic Lonely.
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| "Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like
playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick." | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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