Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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