A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Christianity 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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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