The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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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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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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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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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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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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