The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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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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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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