I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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