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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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 Letter Literature Man Merely
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Eye Make Picture Shut Stop
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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After Day Idl Motion Nebat Ocean Painted Stuck Upon
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All Explain Man Purpose Thing Think
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Acknowledge Best Hard Hearted Human Know Man Nature Nonsense Strength Wok
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Acem Body Depth Gaenor Mind Ocean Own Party Profession Religion Substance Work
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Attention Difficulty Fix Men Them World
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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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
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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Armonty Conquest Contain Eapon Future Human Language Mind Past Trophies
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work

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