All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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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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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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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 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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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