Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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A great mind must be androgynous.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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With all our wisdom and foresight we can take a lesson in gladness and gratitude from the happy bird that sings all night, as if the day were not long enough to tell its joy.
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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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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 can permanently please, which doesn’t contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,–just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all.
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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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