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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Balance Constantly Diffuse Fuse Healthy Maintain Mind Processes Tone Unity
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Advocate Argument Convince Duty Feeling First Just Opponent Sympathy Undrdtand
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
What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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Body Dewarfish Epigram Soul Whole Wit
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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Also Beast Consciousness Difference Kind Possession Same Soul
The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon ‘s immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.
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Characteristics Country Declension Empire Found Immense Imperial People Person State True Word Work
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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Affectionate Converge Experience Literal Literature Pursue Short Tarde Youthful
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
How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, “the friend of God,” Abraham was that man.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
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
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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Cease Deepest Give God Much Need never Night Singing Sorrow Thankful Trouble
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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Agent Human Imagination Living Perception Power Primary Prime
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Always Mark Silence Wisdom
Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
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Anime Better Fame Family Tranquility
We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.
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Country God Peaceful Person Profound Relation Reverence Surprise

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