We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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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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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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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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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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