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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
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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.
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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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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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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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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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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Great Mind Must
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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