"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."

Trust, Imagination, Nature, Act

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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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"I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion."

Karen Marie Moning, American Author

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"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"Envy, bleating 'I'm as good as you', is the hotbed of Fascism."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"A man in loss is not a man to trust."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If you would wish another to keep your secret first keep it yourself."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"A bird will only eat from a hand it trusts."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Trust, but verify."

Ronald Reagan, American President

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"Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms."

James Madison, American President

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"All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness."

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"Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process."

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"So lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be."

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"What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awake, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?"

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"Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean."

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"In poems, equally as in philosophic disquisitions, genius produces the strongest impressions of novelty while it rescues the most admitted truths from the impotence caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission."

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"Silence does not always mark wisdom."

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"The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can,Hanging so light, and hanging so high,On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky."

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"Readers may be divided into four classes: I. Sponges, who absorb all they read, and return it nearly in the same state, only a little dirtied. II. Sand-glasses, who retain nothing, and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. III. Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. IV. Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also."

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