Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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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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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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