Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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