Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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