The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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