We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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