I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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 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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