No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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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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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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