Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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