Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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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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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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