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 COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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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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