The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat comes from the heart goes to the heart
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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