To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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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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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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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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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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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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