Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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