Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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The 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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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