The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt 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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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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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