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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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Artem Master One People Reflection Should
I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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Head Heart Knew never Philantrophy Somewhere Trader Wrong
We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Enough Feel Lucky Miseries Thousand
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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Appear Arteries Circulate Democracy Externally Healthful Lifeblood never Support System Vein
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
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Good Other Prilivege Sincere Sympathy Wishes
No man does anything from a single motive.
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Anything Man Motive No Single
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. “Thou shalt not” is their characteristic formula.
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Characteristics Formula Law Prohibitive Prudence Rule Stine Table
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Believe Feel Interest Life Nature One Proper Thing
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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Claim Essential Genuine Greatest Pleasure Poem Possesses Power Read Return
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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Affirm Almost Book Excellent Good Hold Like Milton Quality Remark Say Truth Well
To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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Beloved Indeed Need
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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