It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIf you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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He prayeth best who loveth best.
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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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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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
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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.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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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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