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 COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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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 rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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