Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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