For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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