How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot 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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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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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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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