I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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