Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThere is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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