Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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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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