Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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