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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Best Cleaver Definition Homely Order Poet Poetry Prose Remember Wish Word Young
It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Acknowledge Best Hard Hearted Human Know Man Nature Nonsense Strength Wok
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
He prayeth best who loveth best.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

Best Loveth Playeth
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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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Ame Believe Different Diverse Growth Period Understand
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Amusement Annoy Company Look Men Object People Person Race
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart
Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Abject Draw Hop Hope Live Nectar Sive Work
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All Explain Man Purpose Thing Think
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
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
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Before Children Dance General Graceful Immutable Team
Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem

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