The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENot 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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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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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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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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