I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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