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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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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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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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For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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