If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDeep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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