Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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