The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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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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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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