"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Poetry: the best words in the best order."
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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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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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