The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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