Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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