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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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