No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGERemorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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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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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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