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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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