Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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