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 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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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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