Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEEither we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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