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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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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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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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