I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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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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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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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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