The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt [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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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