Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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