No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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