"The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father."
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.“
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
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"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."
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"Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets."
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-Galina Vishnevskaya
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