Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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