The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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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