No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA 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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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