Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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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.
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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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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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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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