I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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