In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhen a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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