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.
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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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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