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.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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
Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink.
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.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
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.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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