All powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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