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Western literature has been more influenced by the Bible than any other book.
Thomas B. Macaulay
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Both in individuals and in masses violent excitement is always followed by remission, and often by reaction. We are all inclined to depreciate whatever we have overpraised, and, on the other hand, to show undue indulgence where we have shown undue rigor.
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It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.
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With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
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Highest among those who have exhibited human nature by means of dialogue stands Shakespeare. His variety is like the variety of nature,--endless diversity, scarcely any monstrosity.
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The Orientals have another word for accident it is kismet,--fate.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
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All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
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Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.
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Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.
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Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
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