Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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