Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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