There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWork without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Not 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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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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