For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIn many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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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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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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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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It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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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 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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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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