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"Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."

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"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame."

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"An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye."

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"Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom."

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"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming."

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"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."

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"Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war"

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"Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

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"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never."

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"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all."

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"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel."

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"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all."

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"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself."

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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration."

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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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"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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"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."

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"Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole."

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"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor."

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"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."

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"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least."

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"Poetry the best words in the best order."

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"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."

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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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"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch."

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"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection."

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"The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."

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"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink."

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"What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul."

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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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