Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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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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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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A single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
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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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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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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 primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I Am.
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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity.
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