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 COLERIDGEDeep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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