Summer has set in with its usual severity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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 first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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