The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA 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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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How 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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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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