When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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