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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
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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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Glorious Light Made Tear Thing
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Ame Believe Different Diverse Growth Period Understand
It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
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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Cease Deepest Give God Much Need never Night Singing Sorrow Thankful Trouble
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
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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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
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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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person

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