A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAnd in today already walks tomorrow.
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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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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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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 .
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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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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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