Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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