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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe. - [Thought] Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. - [Ideas] Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, forms our true honor. - [Honor] Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. - [Opinion] Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm. - [Thought] Pity best taught by fellowship of woe. - [Pity] Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe. - [Pity] Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from. - [Plagiarism] Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me. - [Poetry] Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house. - [Poetry] Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. - [Poetry] Rage is essentially vulgar. - [Rage] Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant. - [Gentlemen] Religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. - [Religion] Remorse weeps tears of blood. - [Remorse] Shakespeare is of no age, nor, I may add, of any religion or party or profession. The body and substance of his works come out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind; his observation and reading supplied him with the drapery of his figures. - [Shakespeare] She listen'd with a flitting blush, With downcast eyes, and modest grace, For well she knew I could not choose But gaze upon her face. - [Proposals] Silence does not always mark wisdom. - [Silence] Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out. - [Love] Sublimity is Hebrew by birth. - [Sublimity] Sunny spots of greenery. - [Country] 'T is a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way. - [Spring] Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherent; genius, being the action of reason and imagination, rarely or never. - [Genius] Thalwell thought it very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it had come to years of discretion to choose for itself. I showed him my garden, and told him it was a botanical garden. "How so?" said he; "it is covered with weeds." "O," I replied, "that is only because it has not yet come to its age of discretion and choice. The weeds, you see, have taken the liberty to grow, and thought it unfair in me to prejudice the soil towards roses and strawberries." - [Education] That gracious thing, made up of tears and light. - [Rainbows] Displaying page 5 of 11 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 [5] 6 7 8 9 10 11
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