How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic 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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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