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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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