A sight to dream of, not to tell!
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.
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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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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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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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