Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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We may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.
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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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Of 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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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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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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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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