Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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.
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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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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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