The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAll powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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