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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.

Goodness

3.6 · 30 votes

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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.

Love

4.8 · 44 votes · 150 reads

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All of us, who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. - Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Self-improvement

3.1 · 37 votes · 164 reads

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Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality.

Chastity

4.4 · 40 votes

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Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Hope

3.5 · 64 votes · 112 reads

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Pearl S. Buck

Society
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before whose image bow the vulgar great, the vainly rich, the miserable proud, the mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, and wi
3.1 · 50 votes · 147 reads
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Various
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.
3.6 · 22 votes · 16 reads
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Nature
Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
4.7 · 49 votes · 154 reads
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Government and Politics
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.
3.3 · 61 votes · 21 reads
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Nature
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.
3.1 · 27 votes · 114 reads
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Nature
How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
4.6 · 45 votes · 15 reads
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Society
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.
4.3 · 62 votes · 51 reads
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Virtues
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
3.8 · 57 votes · 106 reads
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Time
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.
4.8 · 26 votes · 71 reads
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Society
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.
4.3 · 43 votes · 60 reads
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Feelings
Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
4.4 · 39 votes · 135 reads
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Government and Politics
Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.
3.2 · 23 votes · 16 reads
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Society
Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.
4.6 · 21 votes · 85 reads
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Time
O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
3.8 · 9 votes · 172 reads
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Art and Culture
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
4.0 · 61 votes · 47 reads
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Feelings
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.
4.7 · 9 votes · 7 reads
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Art and Culture
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
4.5 · 54 votes · 13 reads
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Art and Culture
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
3.7 · 23 votes · 20 reads
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Government and Politics
Power, like a desolating pestilence, pollutes whatever it touches.
4.8 · 13 votes · 192 reads
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Various
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.
4.9 · 52 votes · 48 reads
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Art and Culture
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.
4.8 · 57 votes · 84 reads
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Society
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.
4.6 · 47 votes · 79 reads
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Time
The gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.
4.3 · 51 votes · 132 reads
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Virtues
The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
3.8 · 32 votes · 62 reads
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Society
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.
4.4 · 36 votes · 185 reads
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Feelings
The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.
4.1 · 56 votes · 181 reads
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Feelings
The soul's joy lies in doing.
4.6 · 36 votes · 192 reads
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Virtues
Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.
4.1 · 6 votes · 192 reads
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Time
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!
3.4 · 53 votes · 146 reads
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Society
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.
3.0 · 57 votes · 188 reads
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Government and Politics
To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
4.8 · 32 votes · 17 reads
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Government and Politics
War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.
3.0 · 41 votes · 114 reads
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