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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Beast Deserve Forethought Man Metphronical Name Phrase Reflection Sacred
The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a “ruined man” is itself a vocation.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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Animal Brute Disgust Healthy Man Mind Over Prevails Processes Proportion Sense
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Dream Lie Sight
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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Almoem Bold Despair Eye Great Guitar Prparatyion Timorous
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Beloved Indeed Need
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
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Set Severity Summer Usually
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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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Easy Persecution Very Virtue
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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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
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.
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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave
In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.
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Conceal Full Heart Love Many Presence Reveal Way
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
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
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True

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