That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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