Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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