Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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