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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Author Creator Excellence Excess Fault Generally
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Angel Blessing Few Heaven Inspiration Overflow World
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Advocate Argument Convince Duty Feeling First Just Opponent Sympathy Undrdtand
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Already Author Biographer Country Man People Person Runed
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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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
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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Equality Genius Highest Impression Novelty Philosophy Poetry Prerogative Produce Strong Useful
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Best Cleaver Definition Homely Order Poet Poetry Prose Remember Wish Word Young
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Constitution Disbelief Faith Moment Poetic Suspension Willing
The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Direct Gratified Institution Land Multitude Spoil Tyranny
$Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quote - The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.$

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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Amde Fraction Happiness Life Minute

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