The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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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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