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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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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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Language 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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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 bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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