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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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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who h
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
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The study of the Bible will keep anyone from being vulgar in style.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any Writerfrom being vulgar, in point of style.
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon w
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Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract rig
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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