If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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