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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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