If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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