Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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