The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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