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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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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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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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