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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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