The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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