Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live:
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O! the one Life within us and abroad,
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Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
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my gentle-hearted Charles, to whom No sound is dissonant which tells of Life.
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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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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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Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
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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 ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!
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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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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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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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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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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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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree and is what the world calls wisdom.
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Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom
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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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