It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFor poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
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My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
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There is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
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The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation
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Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, And hope without an object cannot live.
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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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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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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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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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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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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
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All powerful souls have kindred with each other
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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,–the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts.
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