Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGuilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Day 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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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