When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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