If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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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] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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