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| It is not for minds like ours to give or to receive flatter; yet the praises of sincerity have ever been permitted to the voice of friendship | | Friendship; Praise | |
| It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever the struggle of individuals, the great cause will gather strength. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment /but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? | | Uncategorized | |
| It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe /you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep. | | Uncategorized | |
| It is very iniquitous to make me pay my debts - you have no idea of the pain it gives one. | | Uncategorized | |
| Joy's recollection is no longer joy, while sorrow's memory is sorrow still | | Uncategorized | |
| Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let simple Wordsworth chime his childish verse, / And brother Coleridge lull the babe at nurse. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after | | Uncategorized | |
| Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever | | Farewells; Goodbye | |
| Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company | | Uncategorized | |
| Liberty - eternal spirit of the chainless mind | | Liberty | |
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| Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficu | | Uncategorized | |
| Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. | | Uncategorized | |
| Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. | | Love | |
