The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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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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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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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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