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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEImagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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 faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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