He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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Either 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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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