Poetry 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.
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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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