The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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