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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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