I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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