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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWork without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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