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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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 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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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?
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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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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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