Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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