The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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