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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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