It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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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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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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