Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
It 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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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