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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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You 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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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