A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENothing 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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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