Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThis world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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