All powerful souls have kindred with each other
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEReal pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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