He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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