We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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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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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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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