When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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We 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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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