Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPeople of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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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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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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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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