In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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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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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it – low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion – and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national.
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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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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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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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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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