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He 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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Feel Look Man Old She Woman
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
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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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Believe Feel Interest Life Nature One Proper Thing
Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Antipathy Constitute Love Oppose Passion Sort Sympathy
In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Cease Deepest Give God Much Need never Night Singing Sorrow Thankful Trouble
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Carry Childhood Feeling Genius Manhood Power
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
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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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
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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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful

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