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.
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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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The 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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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