"'Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do."

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"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"I teach that all men are mad."

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"Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?"

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"Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not."