Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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