Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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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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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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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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