People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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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.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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