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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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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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Birth Breeding Contain Event Far Greater History Interesting Men Moment Month Nine Ore Probably Three
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
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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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Defense Experience First Inform Mind Recrimable Weak
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

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