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.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.
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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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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
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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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What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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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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Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
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I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
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An undevout poet is an impossibility.
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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.
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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
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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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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
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