Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAs a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?
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We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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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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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.
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Even to admire otherwise than on the whole and where “I admire” is but a synonyme for “I remember, I liked it very much when I was reading it ,” is too much an effort, would be too disquieting an emotion!
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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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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