To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEMilton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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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 may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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 rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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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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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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