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Jeremiah Seed

That wit is truly amiable, which gladdens and enlivens every thing, which shines with a lustre gentle, but not faint, and powerful, but not glaring.

Faint, Gladdens, Powerful, Shines, Shining, Wit
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For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

Admire, He Man, Men, Seldom, Wit

Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: because wit, consisting in a lively representation of ideas assembled together, gives every sensible object those heightening touches, and that striking imagery, which is unknown to men of slower apprehensions: wit being to sensible objects, what light is to bodies; it does not merely show them as they are in themselves: it gives an adventitious colour, which is not a property inherent in them: it lends them beauties which are not their own.

Ideas, Inherent, Light, Men, Touches, Wrong

Great wits, like great beauties, look upon mere esteem as a flat insipid thing; nothing less than admiration will content them.

Admiration, Like, Look Up, Looks, Thing

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Dwells, Fall, Like, Melting, Mind, Snow

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

Comprehend, Finite, Infinite, Infinity, Mind
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