The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAn undevout poet is an impossibility.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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