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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Friendship Sheltering Tree
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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