I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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