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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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Beautiful Flower Heaven Pluck Sleep Slept Strange Went
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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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