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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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