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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe 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.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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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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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.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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