"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith."
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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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"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment."
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"Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing."
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