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No man does anything from a single motive.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return
I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise
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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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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Amusement Annoy Company Look Men Object People Person Race
An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Imoosisbly Poet Undevout
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
The first man of science was he who looked into a thing, not to learn whether it furnished him with food, or shelter, or weapons, or tools, armaments, or playwiths but who sought to know it for the gratification of knowing.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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Call Common Degree Sense Uncommon Wisdom World
In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.
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Equality Genius Highest Impression Novelty Philosophy Poetry Prerogative Produce Strong Useful
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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Eye Make Picture Shut Stop
Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Alas Friend Poison Tongue Truth Whisper Youth
Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Attainable Deep Feeling Man Revelation Species Think Truth

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