A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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