Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGECommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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