Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHow inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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