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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEExperience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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