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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 .

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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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 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 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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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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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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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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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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Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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