Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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