Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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