Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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