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Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
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Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.
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A Grecian history, perfectly written should be a complete record of the rise and progress of poetry, philosophy, and the arts.
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A single breaker may recede but the tide is evidently coming in.
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He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.
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The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still.
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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.
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Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
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A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
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Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
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Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.
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Your Constitution is all sail and no anchor.
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A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
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The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
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I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
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The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
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The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.
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Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.
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The Spartan, smiting and spurning the wretched Helot, moves our disgust. But the same Spartan, calmly dressing his hair, and uttering his concise jests, on what the well knows to be his last day, in the pass of Thermopylae, is not to be contemplated without admiration.
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