Many are ambitious of saying grand things, that is, of being grandiloquent.
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It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.Augustus Hare
Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.
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Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
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The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
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There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.
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