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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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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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The blue and bright-eyed floweret of the brook, Hope's gentle gem, the sweet Forget-me-not.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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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. They become proofs of original genius only as far as they are modified by a predominant passion; or by associated thoughts or images awakened by that passion; or when they have the effect of reducing multitude to unity, or succession to an instant; or lastly, when a human and intellectual life is transferred to them from the poet's spirit.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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All powerful souls have kindred with each other

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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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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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