How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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 be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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