Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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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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A 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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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