An undevout poet is an impossibility.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMen 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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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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?
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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