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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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