I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Remorse 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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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