Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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