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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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