Men of superior vivacity and wit, when they take a wrong turn, are generally worse than other men: … - Jeremiah Seed

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Jeremiah Seed

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.

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For we seldom admire the wit, when we dislike the man.

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

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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.

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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.

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Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

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