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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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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Advocate Argument Convince Duty Feeling First Just Opponent Sympathy Undrdtand
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
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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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Almoem Bold Despair Eye Great Guitar Prparatyion Timorous

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