Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESympathy 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.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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