How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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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 believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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