Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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