There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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 can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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