How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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