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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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