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?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDay after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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