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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
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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Angel Depend Devil Downward Man Rise Sinki Upward
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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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Beast Either First Immortal Soul True Wisedt
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Beat Hope Ingenioyus Inspire Most Physician
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Beautiful Flower Heaven Pluck Sleep Slept Strange Went
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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Carry Childhood Feeling Genius Manhood Power
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Attainable Deep Feeling Man Revelation Species Think Truth
The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Direct Gratified Institution Land Multitude Spoil Tyranny

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