Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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