Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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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?
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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