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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Aged Children Inhuman Often Through World
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
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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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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