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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.
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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.
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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!
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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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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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There is one art of which people should be masters – the art of reflection.
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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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Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!
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I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
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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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We are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.
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I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.
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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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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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It has been observed before that images, however beautiful, though faithfully copied from nature, and as accurately represented in words, do not of themselves characterize the poet.
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Within today, tomorrow is already walking.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Silence does not always mark wisdom.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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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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