A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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