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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
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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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
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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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
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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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
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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Agent Human Imagination Living Perception Power Primary Prime
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Before Children Dance General Graceful Immutable Team
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Head Heart Knew never Philantrophy Somewhere Trader Wrong
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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Christian Faith Good Life Live Philosophy Process Speculation Theory
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Form Foundation Home Outward Passion Win

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