We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Be 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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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