He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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