The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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