Poetry: the best words in the best order.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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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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Milton 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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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