Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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With 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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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