Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEDemocracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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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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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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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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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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