Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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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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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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