When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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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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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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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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