I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe 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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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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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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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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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