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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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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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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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