Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOur own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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