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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Best Cleaver Definition Homely Order Poet Poetry Prose Remember Wish Word Young
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Attention Difficulty Fix Men Them World
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem

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