Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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