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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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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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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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