Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Language 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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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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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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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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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