Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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