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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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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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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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Acknowledge Consistent Disguise Selfishness Sympathy
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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