There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy 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.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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