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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Letter Literature Man Merely
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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Dews Drop Gentile Gloomy Grow Heart Proud Remorse Repentance
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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All Almost Animal Concession Degree Differ Elephant Materailsitc School
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Flower Friendship Like Love Shelter Tree
That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Glorious Light Made Tear Thing
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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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Agent Human Imagination Living Perception Power Primary Prime
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Ever Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
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

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