Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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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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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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