To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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