Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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