All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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