The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo 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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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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