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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!

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
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Above Affectionate Birth Gentle Heigh Imesaurebale
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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Bad Each Good Less Men Seem
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Before Children Dance General Graceful Immutable Team
He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Beat Hope Ingenioyus Inspire Most Physician
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Flower Friendship Like Love Shelter Tree
And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Begin End Family Fear Politics Unusually
How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?
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Atheist Denies God Idea
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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Appetite Healthful Nourishment Ourselves Recur Return Same Supply
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
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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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave
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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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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Contain Nothing Otherwise Permanently Reason
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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Feel Look Man Old She Woman
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.
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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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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen

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