Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEA woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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