Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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The 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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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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