Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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