Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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