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Vote:   | A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. |
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Vote: | All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And its familiar voice wearies not ever. They who inspire is most are fortunate, As I am now: but those who feel it most Are happier still. |
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Vote: | All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. |
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Vote: | Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim. |
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Vote: | Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. |
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Vote: | Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted. |
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Vote: | Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. |
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Vote: | Familiar acts are beautiful through love. |
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Vote: | Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay. |
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Vote: | He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure. |
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Vote: | History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man. |
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Vote: | How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep. |
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Vote: | I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. |
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Vote: | In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect. |
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Vote: | Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. |
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Vote: | It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. |
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Vote: | January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps - but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers. |
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Vote: | Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth. |
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Vote: | Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, satins the white radiance of Eternity, until Death tramples it to fragments. |
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Vote: | Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. |
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Vote: | Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability. |
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Vote: | Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon. |
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Vote: | Nought may endure but Mutability. |
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Vote: | Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. |
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Vote: | Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep - he hath awakened from the dream of life - 'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep with phantoms an unprofitable strife. |
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Vote: | Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. |
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Vote: | Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. |
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Vote: | Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. |
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Vote: | Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. |
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Vote: | Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic. |
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Vote: | Rulers, who neither see, nor feel, nor know, but leech-like to their fainting country cling, till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow, - a people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. |
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Vote: | Soul meets soul on lovers' lips. |
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Vote: | The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership. |
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Vote: | The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. |
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Vote: | The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. |
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Vote: | The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys. |
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Vote: | The more we study the more we discover our ignorance. |
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Vote: | The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself. |
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Vote: | The soul's joy lies in doing. |
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Vote: | There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! |
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Vote: | There is no real wealth but the labor of man. |
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Vote: | To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign. |
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Vote: | War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade. |
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Vote: | When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. |