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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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Antipathy Constitute Love Oppose Passion Sort Sympathy
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Genius Highest Intensity Kind Power Unusual
Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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Atheist Either Goodness Heart Man Mind One Strength Thousand
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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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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Believe Feel Interest Life Nature One Proper Thing
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Ame Believe Different Diverse Growth Period Understand
That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Constitution Disbelief Faith Moment Poetic Suspension Willing
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
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
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Head Heart Knew never Philantrophy Somewhere Trader Wrong
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise

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