The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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