To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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