Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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