The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Highest Novelty Prerogative Useful
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Heavenly Softer
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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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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Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Merely
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Beloved Indeed
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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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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Peaceful Profound Relation Reverence
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.

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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Agent Living Perception Primary Prime
Summer has set in with its usual severity.

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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Disguise Selfishness
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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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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Admore Disquiesting Like Much Raed Synimen
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Undevout
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Before General Graceful Immutable
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Amusement Annoy Object Race
A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Lie
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Few Inspiration Overflow
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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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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Downward Rise Sinki Upward
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Christian Speculation

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