Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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