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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
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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After Day Idl Motion Nebat Ocean Painted Stuck Upon
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
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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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
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
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
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Alas Friend Poison Tongue Truth Whisper Youth
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True
Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Friendship Sheltering Tree
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Alone Day Ill Imaginary Pearl
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
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
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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Beast Either First Immortal Soul True Wisedt

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