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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.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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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Ever Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
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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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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Advice Deeper Dwells Fall Longer Mind Sink Snow Softer Upon
If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.
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All Explain Man Purpose Thing Think
Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.
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Generally Give Mist Perfect Poetry Understood
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinion, forms our true honor.
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Form Heart Honor Men Opinion Own True
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
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Committed Heritage Like Morning Onion Vice
Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
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Finest Glass Keep Prodi=Uce Some Musical Tone Wet
He prayeth best who loveth best.
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Best Loveth Playeth
People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
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Always Degree Genius Humor People Some
A great mind must be androgynous.
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Great Mind Must
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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Balance Constantly Diffuse Fuse Healthy Maintain Mind Processes Tone Unity
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
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Great Man Philosopher Poet Profound Same Time
Man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.
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Action Become Creature Lose Man Meditation Natural Poor Thereby
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.
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Better Equal Love Myself Superior
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
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Best Deep Emotion Older Poetry Touch Words
What comes from the heart goes to the heart
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Come Feeling Goes Heart
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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Beautiful Discover Exceed Good Great Habit Meed Poetry Reward Surround Wish
Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.
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Believe Feel Interest Life Nature One Proper Thing
The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
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Author Creator Excellence Excess Fault Generally
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
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Animal Brute Consonant Man Only Sound User Vowel
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
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Arise Beautiful Constructive Harmony Imagination Inborn Judgement Object Perceive Rule Sight Sound
It [is] very unfair to influence a child’s mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
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Before Choose Come Inculcating Influence Itself Mind Opinion Unfair Year
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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Accurately Beautiful Copy Faithfully Image Nature Observe Represent Themselves Word
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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Follow Precede Sea Shape Single Thought Wave
He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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Begin Better Christianity Church Love Procced Sect Truth
The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
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Apart Greater Idea Mankind Only Pass Possess Possessed Wise

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