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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.
But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony
For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.
The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth.
A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.
To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
The moving moon went up the sky, And nowhere did abide: Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside.
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.
That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!
Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.
He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.
Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.
The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.
A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.
My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.
He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.