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?
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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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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 Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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