In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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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