Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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