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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.

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'Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.

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Ah what avails the sceptered race,
Ah what the form divine!

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Ah, what avails the sceptred race!
Ah, what the form divine!

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Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.

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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

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Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

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Sculpture and painting are moments of life; poetry is life itself.

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Political men, like goats, usually thrive best among inequalities.

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There is delight in singing, though none hear
Beside the singer.

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The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.

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Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

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Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

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No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

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Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.

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Old trees in their living state are the only things that money cannot command.

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It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

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Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

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States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

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Great men lose somewhat of their greatness by being near us; ordinary men gain much.

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Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

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When a cat flatters... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

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He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

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There is no easy path leading out of life, and few are the easy ones that lie within it.

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