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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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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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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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