Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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