When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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