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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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