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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe 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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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