Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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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