This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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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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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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