What comes from the heart goes to the heart
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs 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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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