The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBe 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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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