I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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