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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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As 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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Beast Deserve Forethought Man Metphronical Name Phrase Reflection Sacred
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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Form Foundation Home Outward Passion Win
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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Deficient Humor Mind Organize Sense Throughout
When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Mad Man Mistake Person Thing
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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Acknowledge Best Hard Hearted Human Know Man Nature Nonsense Strength Wok
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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Blind Deaf Happy Imagine Man Marriage Most Myself Picture Union Woman
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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Admore Disquiesting Emotion Like Much Raed Remember Synimen
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
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Imagination Imaginative Language More Necessary Plain Pure Work
To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.
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Ame Believe Different Diverse Growth Period Understand
Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.
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Agent Al Human Imagination Live Perception Power Prime
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.
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Avoid Energy Evil Good Negative Power
Blest hour! It was a luxury–to be!
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Blest Hour Luxury
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
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Alcohol Carefully Egotism Heaven Hell Intense Mark Milton Regin Satan Selfishness Serve
The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.
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Bard Commandment Eight Made
For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.
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Blossom Emotion Fragrance Human Knowledge Language Passion Poetry Thought
A bitter and perplexed “What shall I do?” Is worse to man than worse necessity.
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Bitter Man Necessity Perplex Shall Whose
The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.
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Advocate Argument Convince Duty Feeling First Just Opponent Sympathy Undrdtand
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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Birth Breeding Contain Event Far Greater History Interesting Men Moment Month Nine Ore Probably Three
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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
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Error Great Horizon Man Probability Refraction Rudeness Some Treat Truth Wise
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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According Activity Describe Facilities Perfection Poet Relative Soul Subordination
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
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Dream Lie Sight
The age seems sore from excess of stimulation, just as a day or two after a thorough Debauch and long sustained Drinking-match a man feels all over like a Bruise.
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After Age Day Drink Excess Feel Like Match Over Seem Sime Sore Stimulation Sustain
A woman’s friendship borders more closely on love than man’s. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.
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Border Closely Friendship Love Men More Women
The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.
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Absolute First Great Requisite Sincerity
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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Drudgery Geniys Men Put Racehorse School Sentence Treadmill True
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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Beautiful Character Delineation Genesis Patriarch Wonderful

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