Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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