Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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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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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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