How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWe may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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