Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat 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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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 primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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