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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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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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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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