The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEither 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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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