No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWork without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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