He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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