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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith 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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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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 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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