Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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Until you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.
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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
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