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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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