Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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