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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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