If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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