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.
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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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 happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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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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