Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETo sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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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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The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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