How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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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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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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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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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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