He prayeth best who loveth best.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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