Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGELanguage 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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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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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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