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...Against all greater wrongs." Cailyle has said that " true humor springs not more from the head than from the heart; it is not contempt —its essence...draws down into our affections what is above us." But of this amiable, vivacious excellence, Randolph had little or none. His humor was not mere pleasant,...

...humor, &c., according to Carlyle. Here's a good idea, " True humor springs not more frorn the head than from the heart. It is not contempt, its essence is...laughter, but in still smiles which lie far deeper." He speaks of " the freedom with which Richter bandies to and fro the dogmas of religion, nay, sometimes,...

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...life it has being false, artificial, and irrational. True humour springs not more from the head than from the heart ; it is not contempt, its essence is...sublimity ; exalting, as it were, into our affections what IB below us, while sublimity draws down into our affections what is above us. The former is scarcely...

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