Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMan thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Sympathy 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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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