The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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 mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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