We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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There 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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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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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