Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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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 primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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