In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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