In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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