No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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