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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Dearer Enthusiasm Great Nothing Self Swallowing
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
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Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
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 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
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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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
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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Country God Peaceful Person Profound Relation Reverence Surprise
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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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Animal Brute Consonant Man Only Sound User Vowel
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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