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O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:
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my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.
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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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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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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
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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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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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Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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O! the one Life within us and abroad,
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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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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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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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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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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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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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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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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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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
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