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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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