Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage 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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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