Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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