In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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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.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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