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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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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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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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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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