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"You would compliment a coxcomb doing a good act, but you would not praise an angel."
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"The most judgmental people are often those who complain most about being judged. The ones not complaining will look as though they're the ones doing the judging."
"We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
"Don't judge people by their profession, otherwise you'll end up with more enemies than friends."
"There is no need, in order to explain three-quarters of the opinions held about people, to go so far as a love that has been spurned or an exclusion from political power. Our judgment remains unsure: an invitation refused or received determines it."
"Everyone judges constantly: positively judging one person is the same as negatively judging everyone else, it is to say that that person is superior in some sense."
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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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