No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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