What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEGenius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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