To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEExperience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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