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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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