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Toleration, as it is now widely preached, may be a very one-sided bargain. It will not do to let falsehood and moral idiocy say to truth and honesty, "I will tolerate you if you will tolerate me."

— Coventry Patmore The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

He is irrational, however well he may be able to reason, who does not clearly see that good is good and truth truth.

Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

Science is a line, art a superficies, and life, or the knowledge of God, a solid.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence.

The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

As the Word of God is God's image, so the word of man is his image, and "a man is known by his speech."

Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

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