Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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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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No man does anything from a single motive.
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