People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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