When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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