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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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