There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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