To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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