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 COLERIDGESympathy 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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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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