When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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