The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESummer has set in with its usual severity.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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