Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEChristianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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