Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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