How 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.
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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Friendship is 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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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.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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