Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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