Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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