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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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