Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry 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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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