Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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