There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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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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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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