Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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