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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All Explain Man Purpose Thing Think
There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Countenance Every History Human Least Observer Often Prophecy Reflect Saden
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
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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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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