That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEOf no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.
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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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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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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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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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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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He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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