Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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 doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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