Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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.
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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