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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
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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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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Great Intolerance Mind Seen Shown Support Tolerance
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
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
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Author Creator Excellence Excess Fault Generally
The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Assume Begun Common Everything House Low Made Meddling Prophecies See Universal Verify Vulgar
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Agent Human Imagination Living Perception Power Primary Prime

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