It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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