If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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 does anything from a single motive.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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