Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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