"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.“
-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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"It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness."
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."
-Dante Alighieri
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"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."
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"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce."
-P. J. O'Rourke
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"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."
-Corrie Ten Boom
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"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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