A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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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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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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