Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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