Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEBrute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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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.
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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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