Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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