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The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
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The devil may be bullied, but not the Deity.
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Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
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Words of love are works of love.
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Nemesis is one of God's handmaids.
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Willmott, the English essayist, says poetry is the natural religion of literature.
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In the nine heavens are eight Paradises Where is the ninth one? In the human breast. Only the blessed dwell in th' Paradises, But blessedness dwells in the human breast.
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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius a vital appropriating exercise of mind closely allied to that which first created it.
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Public opinion is a second conscience.
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Common sense is the average sensibility and intelligence of men undisturbed by individual peculiarities.
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Laws are the silent assessors of God.
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Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
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Reserve may be pride fortified in ice dignity is worth reposing on truth.
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Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.
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I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.
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A sigh can shatter a castle in the air.
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God hands gifts to some, whispers them to others.
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The flower which we do not pluck is the only one which never loses its beauty or its fragrance.
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Polite beggary is too common.
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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