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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Best Cleaver Definition Homely Order Poet Poetry Prose Remember Wish Word Young
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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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart
Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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Acem Body Depth Gaenor Mind Ocean Own Party Profession Religion Substance Work
He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Balance Constantly Diffuse Fuse Healthy Maintain Mind Processes Tone Unity
Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Attention Difficulty Fix Men Them World
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.
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Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Best Deep Emotion Older Poetry Touch Words
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Allegory Contagious Country Enthusiasm Myth Noting People Person
And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Already Today Tomorrow Walk
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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Clergy Fraud God Hurch Interest Liar Orthodox Publish
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Ignorance Ignorant Presume Understanding Until Understand Yourself
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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