My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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