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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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