No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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