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 COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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