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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Antipathy Constitute Love Oppose Passion Sort Sympathy
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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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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Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
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.
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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
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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Beast Deserve Forethought Man Metphronical Name Phrase Reflection Sacred
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Friendship Sheltering Tree
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
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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Dearer Enthusiasm Great Nothing Self Swallowing
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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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
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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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon

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