If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
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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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
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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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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:–for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.
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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; – poetry = the best words in the best order.
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What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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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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And in today already walks tomorrow.
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In the deepest night of trouble and sorrow God gives us so much to be thankful for that we need never cease our singing.
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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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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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