The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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