There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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