Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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With 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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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