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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
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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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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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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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No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.
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