Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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