A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
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Poetry has been to me "its own exceeding great reward:" it has soothed my afflictions; it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments; it has endeared solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart, which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.
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There is one art of which every man should be master, the art of reflection.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Cleverness is a sort of genius for instrumentality. It is the brain of the hand. In literature, cleverness is more frequently accompanied by wit, genius, and sense, than by humour.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.
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It is the beauty and independent worth of the citations, far more than their appropriateness, which have made Johnson's Dictionary popular even as a reading-book.
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The cosmopolitism of Germany, the contemptuous nationality of the Englishman, and the ostentatious and boastful nationality of the Frenchman.
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