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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEClergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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