Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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