No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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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.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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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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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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