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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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