What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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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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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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.
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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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