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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Best Inspiration Moment Prepare Serve
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Armament First Food Furnish Learn Look Man Play Science Shelter Thing Tool Weapon
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Constitution Disbelief Faith Moment Poetic Suspension Willing
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
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
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
He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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Beast Deserve Forethought Man Metphronical Name Phrase Reflection Sacred
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
Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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Argumentation Arm Constitute Escutcheon Honorable Letter Literature Man Merely
It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
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
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius – the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.
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Acting Constitute Genuis Lawless Must Orinibnation Power Under
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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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
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
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Attention Difficulty Fix Men Them World
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart

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